Workers Demand Better Campaign paper

As we emerged from the Covid 19 pandemic, workers rightly expected better and fairer treatment from the government and their employers. After all those sacrifices made to maintain the economy and to keep us safe, despite years of pay restraint across our public and private sectors, working people...

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Workers Demand Better Campaign Launch

The NIC-ICTU will launch the Workers Demand Better campaign at 10am Monday 10 October in Parliament Buildings Stormont, Room 115. The umbrella body of unions who represent over 200,000 working people across Northern Ireland will unveil a detailed and realistic strategy to tackle the cost-of-living...

Wages and the Cost of Living Crisis

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Online via Zoom

This webinar will explain escalating inflation, its impact on wages and household budgets, and why union wage claims are not to blame. It will also address how...
Regina Coeli petition hand over

Save Regina Coeli hostel – Save UNITE members jobs

On Tuesday 15th March at 2PM, UNITE and NIC-ICTU handed over nearly 12,000 signatures collected from members of the public to the DfC Minister Deirdre Hargey calling for the Regina Coeli hostel to be saved. The petition was handed to the Minister by Regina Coeli workers Emma McCann and Bernadette...
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Union recognition best route for decent work

Speaking at a Department of Finance event to mark Living Wage Week and the accreditation of the NI Executive as a living wage employer, ICTU AGS Owen Reidy said The trade union movement welcomes the commitment from the NI Executive to be a living wage employer. This is more important than ever given...
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ICTU Biennial delegate Conference 2021 - No Going Back

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions will hold the first major delegate conference to occur in Northern Ireland since the onset of the Covid pandemic in March 2020. Postponed from July, the ICTU BDC will now take place from 26-27 October 2021. The venue remains the same, the ICC Waterfront Hall...

Dealing with Redundancies

This course is designed to equip representatives with the knowledge and skills to tackle redundancies in the workplace.

It will give reps a better understanding of the redundancy process and enable them to organise effectively around this issue.

The course will include:

Confidence at Work

Course content includes:

  • How building confidence can change union members’ lives.
  • How confidence can be damaged by stereotyping in the workplace.
  • How to bring about change in the workplace.
  • Understand the nature of specific intimidating behaviour at work.
  • Understand how legislation and policy can support challenging specific behaviours at work.
  • Be able to develop a trade union plan for dealing with intimidation at work.

The course will also look at building confidence for negotiating scenarios.
 

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