Motions

Conference asserts that the right of all workers to bargain collectively with employers is a fundamental human right enshrined in the conventions of the International Labour Organisation and in Article 28 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, consistently...

Congress demands the adoption of specific legislative provisions to ensure that workers do not suffer discrimination or penalty from their employer either because they are a union member or activist, or for revealing illegal or unethical practices in the...

This Biennial Delegate Conference notes with concern the lack of progress in securing the right to collective trade union representation for freelance and economically dependent workers. Towards 2016, Review and Transitional Agreement, contained a specific...

Noting that the scale of unemployment is at a level which involves excessive human suffering, and is otherwise a threat to social cohesion, Conference calls on Government to respond positively to our proposals for investment in both economies on the island in...

Conference acknowledges with deep concern the increasing issue of precarious work, combining very high levels of flexibility with very low levels of job security, as a growing phenomenon in Ireland and the fact that precarious work has received little...

Conference directs the incoming Executive Council to express its genuine concern over the Government's JobBridge scheme, as it currently exists, without any oversight or direction from the Trade Union movement. The existing scheme depresses genuine job...

Congress notes with concern the disproportionate impact upon our young people by the recession in Ireland, North and South. In the Republic, the number of young people (under 25) in the labour force reduced by 50% between 2008 and the present. A disturbing...

This conference notes with concern the current decreasing membership numbers across the trade union movement. In particular, the young people currently joining the workforce are largely not joining unions. This conference also notes that a disproportionate...

Conference calls upon the Government to act decisively and without further delay to protect defined benefit pension schemes and to move towards universal occupational pensions coverage via mandatory tripartite savings schemes. It considers that it is...

This conference calls on the Executive Council to pursue with the European Globalisation Fund Managing Authority funding for the retraining of Irish redundant workers in sectors of Irish Industry such as the construction sector where many thousands of workers...