Employment legislation

Motion no
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NI BDC 2024 Workers Making Change Happen
Conference notes the general shift in trade unions towards organising, meaning both the strengthening of our existing structures and also the recruitment of new members in traditional and new sectors. Conference agrees that legislative changes are necessary in...

Good Jobs EMPLOYMENT BILL

Motion no
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NI BDC 2024 Workers Making Change Happen
Conference welcomes the beginning of the legislative process in the NI Assembly for a the ‘Good Jobs’ NI Employment Bill. This far-reaching and comprehensive legislation will, when enacted, deliver the most progressive package of workers’ rights in decades...

Abuse of journalists

Motion no
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NI BDC 2024 Workers Making Change Happen
This conference notes with concern the growing threat to media freedom in Northern Ireland. The promotion and protection of independent journalism is essential to the functioning of a democratic society. Attempts to undermine journalists and journalism, either...
Accounts accountant money, economy

A Fair NI Budget necessary to avert a wave of industrial action

The Leadership of the trade union movement in Northern Ireland met yesterday to discuss the growing discontent among workers in both private and public sectors at the inability of the NI Executive and the UK Government to agree a Stormont budget. Speaking after the meeting, ICTU Assistant General...
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New LucidTalk poll reveals fears of ‘Workers’ Rights Sea Border’

A major new opinion poll shows continued public support for the Economy Minister’s Caoimhe Archibald’s plan to bring forward new legislation on workers’ rights and good jobs. A new LucidTalk poll reported by the Belfast Telegraph today shows that over 70% of the total sample agreed that trade union...
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