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That this Conference calls on the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to reverse the decision in 2015 to increase the waiting time to qualify for disability benefit from three days to six days. This measure was implemented during the...

Congress acknowledges the important service that foster carers play in providing a safe and stable environment for foster children in Ireland. While their role is recognised by the State in terms of fostering allowances, there are no associated leave...

Congress notes the risk, in a time of great economic and political uncertainty for the voice of workers, expressed through their trade unions, to become marginalised. This makes it essential that in any discussion of future economic development and trade...

We at Equity request that all the sister unions at this year’s ICTU Conference join with us to pursue these aims and any others necessary to protect all of our workers in all industries and professions at this difficult time. We call upon the ICTU: To join...

Conference notes that at the time of writing, the UK has missed the deadline of 29th March to leave the EU and that the terms of its exit and whether it will exit at all remains unclear. Conference agrees however that regardless of whether or not the UK has...

ICTU Biennial Delegate Conference expresses its concern over the crisis on the high street and in the wider retail sector. Over the past 12 months, the retail sector has been hit by more shop closures than ever and consumer confidence has still not fully...

Conference remains deeply concerned at the impact on domestic seafarers from ferry operators’ recruitment of foreign crews on rates of pay below legal minimum wage rates on both sides of the Irish Sea. For example, Conference notes that Seatruck, Irish Ferries...

Conference notes the increasing industrial relations tensions within the energy sector across the Island of Ireland, and in particular the pressures placed on members as a result of uncertainty on employment security and incomes. We believe that many of these...

This conference: • Understands the importance of pooling our resources to meet the challenges facing working people, their communities and the unions that represent them. • Values the unity that exists between workers in the private, public, and community...

This conference recognises the disaster that welfare reform has been for the poorest in our communities in Northern Ireland. Low paid workers have been hit particularly hard by Universal Credit and, for them, there have been no mitigations payments available...