Conferences

Conference recognizes that climate is a major systemic risk to the lives of our members and that more needs to be done across all our communities to move from carbon intensive industries to renewables. Conference acknowledges the recent efforts to establish a...

Conference notes that: The community and voluntary sector in Northern Ireland employs approximately 57,000 workers across hundreds of employers and over a thousand sites, with trade union density below 5%. The sector delivers frontline services to some of the...

Conference notes with concern the extreme pressures facing our health and social care (HSC) system and the impact of underfunding, outsourcing and structural inefficiency on healthcare workers and the public. The approach taken by healthcare leaders and...

Conference recognises and thanks the health trade unions, for the sustained work that ensured we had progress towards safe and effective staffing legislation. Conference further recognises that this legislation has the potential to strengthen accountability...

Congress notes that maternity services across Northern Ireland are being pushed by years of understaffing, underinvestment and increasing demand. Midwives, maternity support workers and student midwives are working in conditions that are neither safe nor...

Conference notes that healthcare professions with predominantly female workforces continue to experience significant barriers to accessing flexible working arrangements, despite ongoing workforce shortages and increasing pressures on staff. Conference believes...

The foundation of the NHS remains one of the most significant achievements of the working class. In the period running up to its establishment, it was opposed by powerful capitalist interests, private health profiteers and political representatives of...

Conference recognises that some of the most vulnerable children and young people in our society are those whose lives are affected by multiple and complex challenges, including experience of the care system, poor mental health, developmental trauma, addiction...

Congress notes with grave concern the increasing incidence of social media abuse targeting teachers, including the creation of fake accounts, AI-generated videos, and other forms of online misrepresentation. Congress recognises that such content is often...