Industrial relations

The Northern Ireland Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions repeats its call for the NI Executive to bring forward the Good Jobs Employment Bill before MLAs leave Stormont for the summer recess. We reiterate that there is time for our elected MLAs to debate and scrutinise the legislation in...

Rally at the steps of Parliament Buildings, Stormont Estate 12 Noon, 18 May 2026 The Northern Ireland Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions invite you to a press event at the steps of Parliament Buildings next Monday. The ‘ Good Jobs’ Employment Bill is at the NI Executive for discussion...

T he NIC-ICTU’s Retired Workers’ Committee (RWC) annual Age Seminar was held in in joint session with the RoI RWC in the Gateway Hotel in Dundalk. The tenth such event was chaired by Ann Walsh, ROI RWC committee secretary and Margaret Galloway, NI RWC committee chair. Proceedings were started by...

Trade Unions join Minister for the Economy to remember all those killed, injured or made sick at or because of work. The Chair of the Northern Ireland Committee ICTU Jacquie White joined the Minister for the Economy Dr Caoimhe Archibald MLA, to participate in a wreath laying ceremony in Stormont...

The letter from some business lobby groups today calling on the Economy Minister Dr Caoimhe Archibald to walk away from her flagship Good Jobs Bill is based on little evidence and few specific objections to the most comprehensive updating of employment law in a generation. This legislation has been...

On International Womens Day, the trade union movement calls on MLAs to support the Good Jobs Bill. Polling shows major support for new Employment Rights laws from NI Assembly The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has written to every MLA to urge support for new rights for workers in Northern Ireland...