Motions

Securing decent jobs is a core aim of all trade unions, to build a better future for all we need to win fairly paid jobs across all sectors. To do this we need to campaign and organise. Conference calls on affiliate unions and Congress to support campaigns...

Congress is concerned that many workers in a wide range of different sectors are not receiving a decent break from work over the Christmas and New Year holiday period. Congress notes the results of the Christmas and New Year working surveys by Usdaw, which...

The omission of creative professionals from the list of self-employed workers benefiting from visa free travel for work purposes in Annex 3 is a huge blow to entertainment workers, the impact of which will be immediate and far reaching. Equity has already...

Delegates will recall that in 2016 this conference passed a motion calling on the NI Executive and Assembly to complete the legislation designed to outlaw discrimination on the grounds of age a requirement under the 1998 Belfast Agreement and the subject of...

Conference is deeply concerned by the compelling evidence of the increasing incidence of sexual harassment in the workplace, including sexist ‘jokes’ and ‘banter’, unwanted touching and the growing objectification of women and girls. Congress notes that the...

Awareness of the scale and urgency of the climate crisis and the wider environmental threats faced as a result of unsustainable capitalist economics is growing among all sections of the community, most especially the young. Trade unionists have joined and been...

Conference notes that unions and the broader trade union movement, along with many public housing activists and campaigners have long agreed that the Northern Ireland Housing Executive has been deliberately underfunded for more than two decades and that this...

NICICTU notes that rehabilitation must be recognised as an unmissable part of Covid-19 recovery, and leaders and policy makers need to be taking urgent action to ensure that this is delivered. Recent modelling and evidence suggests that a significant number of...

This Conference reaffirms the policy of Congress to oppose the mining of gold in the Sperrin mountains. Conference believes this would cause massive environmental pollution to an area of outstanding natural beauty, threaten the entire Foyle River system, and...

It is noted that coronavirus pandemic has had a huge impact on all workers across the economy, and in particular freelancers and the self-employed within the creative industries in Northern Ireland, who have fallen between the gaps of income support schemes...