Motions

Conference notes that since the return of devolved Government in Northern Ireland in January 2020, workers across both public and private sectors have either been at the frontline in responding to the worst global public health crisis in living memory or have...

Conference, the past year has been seen us having to face unprecedented challenges with tragic loss of life and economic damage from the global pandemic impacting on workers and their families here and across the world. Northern Ireland has seen over 1,700...

Automation is not a new challenge to the Trade Union movement, however, the pace of change posed by new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) & digitalisation is staggering with some estimates putting jobs effected as high as 35% in the UK and 47%...

Securing decent jobs is a core aim of all trade unions, to build a better future for all we need to win fairly paid jobs across all sectors. To do this we need to campaign and organise. Conference calls on affiliate unions and Congress to support campaigns...

Congress is concerned that many workers in a wide range of different sectors are not receiving a decent break from work over the Christmas and New Year holiday period. Congress notes the results of the Christmas and New Year working surveys by Usdaw, which...

The omission of creative professionals from the list of self-employed workers benefiting from visa free travel for work purposes in Annex 3 is a huge blow to entertainment workers, the impact of which will be immediate and far reaching. Equity has already...

Delegates will recall that in 2016 this conference passed a motion calling on the NI Executive and Assembly to complete the legislation designed to outlaw discrimination on the grounds of age a requirement under the 1998 Belfast Agreement and the subject of...

Conference is deeply concerned by the compelling evidence of the increasing incidence of sexual harassment in the workplace, including sexist ‘jokes’ and ‘banter’, unwanted touching and the growing objectification of women and girls. Congress notes that the...

Awareness of the scale and urgency of the climate crisis and the wider environmental threats faced as a result of unsustainable capitalist economics is growing among all sections of the community, most especially the young. Trade unionists have joined and been...

Conference notes that unions and the broader trade union movement, along with many public housing activists and campaigners have long agreed that the Northern Ireland Housing Executive has been deliberately underfunded for more than two decades and that this...