Motions

This conference notes that high levels of unemployment, wage devaluation and wage cuts, regressive taxation, reactionary labour market policies, cuts in public sector employment and increasing rents have all contributed to increasing levels of poverty and...

Mindful of the unprecedented changes that have taken place in the banking sector since 2008which have not only included the major convulsions associated with the widespread restructuring of key institutions but also the substantial transformation in the...

Congress endorses the anti-austerity campaign waged by NIC-ICTU and our affiliates and commits the full support of Congress across the entire island of Ireland. In the deeply divided and unequal society that is Northern Ireland the stance taken by Congress to...

Conference acknowledges the importance of the increased opposition across many countries in Europe to the austerity programmes of national governments and the European Union as a significant and positive development which should be encouraged and supported by...

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...

Conference expresses its concern at a number of core elements of the Stormont House Agreement (SHA) which was agreed by the main political parties in Northern Ireland in December 2014. Conference recognises the need to strengthen the peace process and for this...

As political devolution develops across the UK there is a danger that Northern Ireland may be viewed as a political situation on which agreement has been reached. This is not the case. In the Republic of Ireland all attention is focused on who will form the...

Congress views with profound regret the establishment of the Education Authority which falls lamentably short of fulfilling the basis for an effective cross-sectoral body for the delivery of an education service in Northern Ireland. Congress believes that the...

This Conference acknowledges: the success of the Nevin Economic Research Institute (NERI) since its establishment in 2012 the significant and valuable contribution that NERI has made to the trade union movement by way of quality and relevant research; the...

Conference respects the contrary perceptions of the 1916 Insurrection as between the different traditions on the island of Ireland. However, Conference deplores the abject failure to realise the egalitarian aspirations of the Proclamation in either of the...