Motions

2015 is a year that will shape the future of humanity, as world leaders will decide on new strategies to fight climate change, hunger, poverty and inequality. During the year, a number of United Nations summit meetings will effectively define the parameters...

The escalating ecological crisis is becoming ever more of a threat to the security of life on this planet. Changing climates and extreme weather events are on the increase and have varying devastating effects on human life from reduction in food production to...

Conference notes the range of environmental, health and social concerns that have been raised in relation to fracking that is high volume hydraulic fracturing for natural gas. It recognises that the industry is characterised by exaggerated forecasts of tax...

Conference directs the incoming Executive Council to request the European Trade Union Confederation to establish a Unit sufficiently staffed by personnel with the appropriate qualifications and skills to monitor the fiscal and labour market structural reform...

Noting that this is the fifth year of the EU/ECB/IMF programme Conference records its deep concern at the absence of any obvious end to the hardship being endured by workers. In particular the destructive consequences for families of high levels of structural...

The Irish economies in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are entering into an extended period of stagnation. This is the result of the current austerity policies of the Fine Gael/Labour Government in the Republic and the Conservative/Lib Dem...

This conference notes the ICTU document. The Case for the Financial Transaction Tax, which argues that the financial sector, having absorbed large amounts of taxpayers money should make a fair contribution to the recovery. Since the publication of this report...

Congress is appalled at the European Unio continued drive towards neo-liberal austerity, its erosion of workers rights and its intensifying use of unemployment as its main economic regulator.Congress believes the decision of the EU that resulted in the...

Congress expresses full support for There is a Better, Fairer, Way campaign, and congratulates the ICTU NIC for organising a successful March for a Fairer Better Way demonstration on 20th October, 2012. Congress reaffirms its policy of an alternative to...

That this Conference condemns the decision of the previous Government to socialise the banking debts by placing the full burden on the backs of the Irish citizens. The Conference further notes that the current Government has failed to fundamentally change this...