Motion no: 8
That this Congress believes that the UK Tory government's much-heralded recovery is a recovery only for the wealthy, as the 1,000 richest in the UK increased their wealth by £70 billion in the last year. This exposes the lie that there is less money around for pay increases.Congress condemns the UK and the Northern Ireland Executive public sector pay policy and notes that some public sector workers are up to 20% worse off a year, following real terms cuts to pay and imposed pension contribution increases. Congress believes that unions industrial action should be coordinated by the ICTU across the public sector. We further believe that the most effective way to challenge the policy is through developing common objectives in a dispute with both the UK and the Northern Ireland Executive and a joint campaigning strategy, including joint industrial action. Congress, therefore, calls on the ICTU-NIC to: draw up a joint industrial action strategy between public sector unions to break the pay cap; facilitate meetings to coordinate joint campaigning
