Climate Crisis and the Workplace – Green Skills for Trade Unionists | -
Online via Zoom
As workers have a huge amount of knowledge that can help organisations looking to reduce their environmental impact, trade unions can play a key role in...
Climate Crisis and the Workplace – Green Skills for Trade Unionists | -
Online via Zoom
This course will also look at a ‘just transition’ to a greener economy, where workers have a central voice in planning the transition. It’s one where no workers...
Climate Crisis and the Workplace – Green Skills for Trade Unionists
As workers have a huge amount of knowledge that can help organisations looking to reduce their environmental impact, trade unions can play a key role in identifying and delivering best environmental practice at workplace level.
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...
Free Public Transport
Motion no
51
Conference notes the many societal problems across the Island of Ireland; from unemployment, job insecurity, and homelessness, rural isolation to ghettoisation, deprivation, poverty and inequality. This conference agrees that urbanisation and centralisation of...
Adopted
Duty to Defend the Environment
Motion no
26
Congress notes that proposals to mine gold in the Sperrin Mountains would cause massive environmental pollution to an area of outstanding natural beauty, and threaten the entire Foyle River system. Congress notes that, rather than create jobs, the proposed...
Adopted
Climate Action & the Need for a Just Transition
Motion no
25
Conference notes that the promise of the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement can only be realised by way of a Just Transition that ensures: “...workers, communities, employers and Government (engage) in social dialogue to drive the...
Adopted
Council Green Spaces
Motion no
38
Conference notes the need to ensure green open spaces in urban areas to help workers cope with stress and anxiety and improve lifestyles choices. Conference also notes plans by Southern Regional College to close its Lurgan and Portadown campuses and open a new...
Adopted
Urban Renewal
Motion no
27
Conference recognises the importance of cultural and artistic endeavour to society and the significance of historical areas such as the Assembly Buildings, Rosemary Street, North Street and Donegall Street, including North Street Arcade and Writers’ Square...
Adopted
Climate Change
Motion no
45
The escalating ecological crisis is becoming ever more of a threat to the security of life on this planet. Changing climates and extreme weather events are on the increase and have varying devastating effects on human life from reduction in food production to...
Adopted
