Motion no: 3
Conference notes the continued attacks on trade unions by the Irish, N Irish and UK governments which aim to undermine the role of trade unions in the workplace by cutting facilities time for trade union duties, obstructing collective bargaining, creating a labour market of precarious employment and pursuing an agenda of privatisation. Conference acknowledges the dif culties this creates for unions to organise, bargain, campaign and take action. Conference commends the unions who have organised to ex their industrial power by taking industrial action over workplace disputes to defend members rights in the face of gross hostility from the governments, employers and right-wing press. Conference therefore instructs the incoming Executive to: Campaign to demand the NI Executive repeal the current anti-trade union legislation and stop attacking facilities time for reps. Support UK unions campaigns against the Trade Union Bill and stop attacking facilities time for reps. Campaign to improve labour rights in Ireland particularly the right to collective bargaining in the workplace. Campaign and ght to outlaw zero hours contracts, precarious employment and under employment. Campaign against privatisation by showing the failures and costs of privatisation Create a public campaign with new materials for the general public detailing what a trade union is, what reps do and how we benefit society socially and economically and in relation to public sector unions how we save taxpayers money.
