Motions

Conference notes that during the height of the pandemic, HSC staff morale was boosted by gestures of appreciation from the public, such as examples of hot food being brought to hospitals for staff working at night. Now, these examples serve as cold reminders...

Conference, more than a decade has now passed since the Department of Health1 started a review that led to the publication of its Strategy for Maternity Care in Northern Ireland 2012-2018. That strategy helped deliver many improvements in maternity care across...

Conference remains deeply concerned that our health and social care system remains under-staffed and under-resourced, with privatisation of services continuing, and with wide health inequalities across society. This concern is now being exacerbated by the...

Due to on-going significant workforce challenges in radiography and many other professions international recruitment is being utilised more frequently to plug the widening workforce gap and deal with increasing levels of vacancies. In the UK we are seeing...

Conference asserts that it is a fundamental principle of our public services that they are free at the point of use and, that educational experiences that promote opportunity and achievement should not be determined by an ability to pay.     Conference...

Congress notes with concern the ongoing financial crisis in schools. Congress further notes the rising energy costs which are predicted to add more than 60% to existing costs across the education sector. Congress calls on the employing authorities to...

The FSU welcomes the initiative of the Minister for Finance in NI, Conor Murphy to hold a roundtable discussion in 2022 involving relevant stakeholders in the financial sector. We further welcome statements from the regulator, politicians and societal groups...

Conference notes that since the return of devolved Government in Northern Ireland in January 2020, workers across both public and private sectors have either been at the frontline in responding to the worst global public health crisis in living memory or have...

Conference, the past year has been seen us having to face unprecedented challenges with tragic loss of life and economic damage from the global pandemic impacting on workers and their families here and across the world. Northern Ireland has seen over 1,700...

Automation is not a new challenge to the Trade Union movement, however, the pace of change posed by new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) & digitalisation is staggering with some estimates putting jobs effected as high as 35% in the UK and 47%...