ICTU WOMEN'S CONFERENCE CALLS FOR EQUALITY, INCLUSION AND SOLIDARITY.
Today, 29 September 2022, nearly 200 senior women trade unionists meet for the first time since March 2020 for the ICTU’s Women’s Conference. Opening the Conference, Women’s Committee Co-Chairs Geraldine Alexander and Margaret Coughlan sent messages of solidarity to women across the world who are...
Union Learn: 20 years of empowering workers
Early Years The trade union movement has a long and proud history of bringing education to working people. Back in 1997 with the election of the Labour government, strategic partnerships between government and the trade union movement were forged. This saw the establishment of Union Learning Funds...
ULF Conference 2022
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Online via Zoom
For two decades the Union Learning Fund for Northern Ireland has enabled thousands of union learners to gain the skills and qualifications they need to progress...
Day two of ICTU Conference hears calls for strong collective bargaining rights for workers
The morning session of day two of the ICTU Biennial Delegate Conference addressed the important issue of collective bargaining and workers rights with motions from trade unions north and south. Delegates heard from Nicolas Schmit, Commissioner for Social Affairs who updated activists on the progress...
5 Party Leaders address trade union conference
Representatives of all five parties in the NI Executive, for the first time, shared a single stage at a trade union conference. They each outlined their party’s positions on workers’ rights as well as the implementation of commitments to decent, secure work and worker representation contained in the...
Northern Ireland needs decent work and stability
On the subject of the NI Protocol, Assistant General Secretary Owen Reidy told 600 trade union delegates (attending in person and virtually) at the ICTU Biennial Conference Northern Ireland needs stability and decent jobs. The trade union movement has consistently called for no border on the island...
ICTU Biennial delegate Conference 2021 - No Going Back
The Irish Congress of Trade Unions will hold the first major delegate conference to occur in Northern Ireland since the onset of the Covid pandemic in March 2020. Postponed from July, the ICTU BDC will now take place from 26-27 October 2021. The venue remains the same, the ICC Waterfront Hall...
NIC-ICTU Biennial Conference, Zoom, 23 March 2021
The Northern Ireland Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (NIC-ICTU) is hosting its Biennial Delegate Conference (BDC) this week online. The BDC was originally planned to take place over two days last March in the Killyhevlin Hotel, Enniskillen, but was postponed for obvious reasons. The...
