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ETUC conference Vienna - speech by Owen Reidy asst. General Secretary on collective bargaining

22 May, 2019

There is one fundamental issue that unites and binds all of us together. It doesn't matter if we come from the north, south, east or west of Europe. Regardless of the political cultures of the countries, we come from. That one thing is the universal right for working woman and men to have the right...

Global trade union movement marks International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

23 Nov, 2018

STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AT WORK Support an ILO Convention The Irish Congress of Trade Unions, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) are calling on governments and employers to stop playing games with working women's lives and back a...

All-Ireland Trade Union movement's response to the Draft Withdrawal Agreement negotiated between the EU and UK

21 Nov, 2018

Today the leadership of the all island Trade Union Movement at its Executive meeting in Belfast considered its response to the Draft Withdrawal Agreement negotiated between the EU and UK The Irish Congress of Trade Unions represents the interests of nearly 800,000 workers on both sides of the border...

Congress Input to Phase 2 EU Exit Negotiations

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2018

Conference believes that countering the potential negative impacts that exiting the EU will have on our members, their families, communities and the wider peace process must remain a key objective. Conference notes that ICTU has campaigned since the result of...

Adopted

Brexit

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2018

Conference: [a] condemns the reckless pursuit of a hard Brexit by elements within the United Kingdom government. [b] instructs the NIC to lobby the parties to the Brexit negotiations to ensure that trade unions headquartered outside of the UK have their right...

Adopted

Brexit

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2018

That this conference expresses reiterates its opposition to a Tory Hard Brexit which threatens a devastating impact on workers, women and those from migrant communities. While a Hard Brexit threatens to affect Northern Ireland workers directly, the form our...

Adopted

Protecting the Peace and Challenging a Hard Brexit

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2018

Conference notes with disappointment that the current political crisis continues with no restoration of devolution in sight in the short term. Whilst the restoration of locally devolved government is not a panacea to all our problems, it is a necessary...

Adopted

Maritime Industry

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2018

Conference continues to oppose the ongoing practice of nationality based pay discrimination in the commercial shipping industry which undercuts and excludes seafarers on both sides of the Irish Sea. Conference notes with concern that operators such as Seatruck...

Adopted

Martin O'Hagan

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2018

This conference notes that, more than sixteen years after the murder of Belfast-based investigative journalist and trade union activist Martin O’Hagan there have been no convictions for the crime. Martin O’Hagan exposed criminality and corruption in Northern...

Adopted

Palestine Solidarity

Motion no

Biennial Delegate Conference 2017

This conference applauds the ICTU Executive Council and Congress af liates, as well as Trade Union Friends of Palestine, for the wide rangeÂ of actions taken to highlight the injustices suffered by the Palestinian people under Israeli occupation, colonisation...

Adopted

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ETUC conference Vienna - speech by Owen Reidy asst. General Secretary on collective bargaining

Global trade union movement marks International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

All-Ireland Trade Union movement's response to the Draft Withdrawal Agreement negotiated between the EU and UK

Congress Input to Phase 2 EU Exit Negotiations

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Protecting the Peace and Challenging a Hard Brexit

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Martin O'Hagan

Palestine Solidarity

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