International

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

The Irish Government has just taken up a seat on the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and will be represented by the Department of Jobs Enterprise and Innovation. The ILO is the only tripartite U.N. agency, and since 1919 brings together governments...

Conference notes the signi cant international developments since we last met, including . The adoption of the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris. The UN Sustainable Development Agenda (Agenda 2030) and its...

Congress recognises the danger posed by extreme right-wing populism throughout Europe. At least part of the reason for this has been the tendency by EU institutions to prioritise the rights of capital over the rights of workers, and they enthusiastically...