Women

DERRY LAUNCH OF WORKERS DEMAND BETTER CAMPAIGN Campaign backed by all NI trade unions to tackle the cost-of-living crisis has first of series of ‘town hall’ meetings in Derry. Derry Trades Union Council (DTUC) and NIC-ICTU will host a public meeting in Derry about the Workers Demand Better campaign...

Speaking after the sad news of the passing of Baroness May Blood, ICTU General Secretary Owen Reidy paid this tribute May Blood learnt her politics and her vocation in the vanished world of the mills of Belfast, a harsh environment of long hours and lives shortened by unsafe working conditions. From...

Today, 29 September 2022, nearly 200 senior women trade unionists meet for the first time since March 2020 for the ICTU’s Women’s Conference. Opening the Conference, Women’s Committee Co-Chairs Geraldine Alexander and Margaret Coughlan sent messages of solidarity to women across the world who are...

The trade union movement welcomes the passing of groundbreaking employment rights at the NI Assembly today (24 March 2022). The Domestic Abuse (Safe Leave) Bill brought forward by Rachel Woods MLA makes provision for up to 10 days paid leave for victims of domestic abuse and is the first such right...