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EA saving plans a 'ransom'

10 Nov, 2026

Education Unions criticise saving plans outlined by the Education Authority as ‘ransom’. Speaking after an emergency meeting of the NIC-ICTU Education Group of 10 trade unions representing workers across the Education sector, ETUG chair Marie O’Shea criticised the saving plans outlined by the...

Progress the Good Jobs Bill

09 Nov, 2026

Unions call upon NI Executive to be allowed to do their job, and progress the Good Jobs Bill Responding to the continued obstruction of the Good Jobs Bill, ICTU Assistant General Secretary Gerry Murphy said Earlier this month we saw new trade union access rights come into effect in Great Britain...

Just Transition

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2026

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...

Defending, Valuing and Organising the Community and Voluntary Sector in Northern Ireland

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2026

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...

Defend and renew our public health system

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2026

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...

Safe Staffing Legislation — Training for Implementation

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2026

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...

Safe Staffing = Safe Care

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2026

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...

Flexible Working and Staff Retention in Healthcare

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2026

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...

Build a Modern NHS

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2026

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...

Our Forgotten Children

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2026

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...

EA saving plans a 'ransom'

Progress the Good Jobs Bill

Just Transition

Defending, Valuing and Organising the Community and Voluntary Sector in Northern Ireland

Defend and renew our public health system

Safe Staffing Legislation — Training for Implementation

Safe Staffing = Safe Care

Flexible Working and Staff Retention in Healthcare

Build a Modern NHS

Our Forgotten Children

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