Motions

The Creative Industries throughout Ireland have been hugely successful to the economies of both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Part of that success depends on investment through Government funding from both the Irish Government and the Northern...

Congress notes that the trade union movement will continue to develop strategies and policies which will ensure that the union movement is the leading voice for social change in Ireland, thus providing alternative analyses and solutions to those being...

Congress deplores Ireland's continuing breach of International Labour Organisation (ILO) Conventions, namely: ILO Convention 98, Article 1 - protecting workers from acts of anti union discrimination. ILO Convention 98, Article 2 - protecting workers'...

This Biennial Delegate Conference notes the failure of the Fianna Fáil/Green Party coalition to honour solemn commitments made in the national partnership agreements, Towards 2016 in relation to employment rights. The failure to introduce legislation...

This Conference is concerned about the growth of precarious forms of employment relationships. This is not a phenomenon occurring only on the fringes of the labour market. Precarious and unstable work is becoming the norm. Work contracts are increasingly...

This Conference notes that due to neo-liberal economic policies and the Celtic Tiger bubble in the case of the Republic of Ireland that higher income earners have fared much better in both percentage and actual pay terms than lower paid workers over the past...

This Conference notes that despite constant negativity towards the Public Service Agreement, generated by those who do not believe in public services and who do not care about those citizens who are dependent upon good public services, and despite the arrival...

This Conference declares that citizen focused public services are an essential element of a fair and decent society. Conference condemns the unwarranted attacks on public servants made in some sections of the media by the same commentators who helped inflate...

Conference calls on Congress to press the administrations in Northern Ireland and in the Republic of Ireland to urgently review the regulation of the independent care sector. This review should examine the standards of training of staff working in the sector...

Conscious of the serious implications for bank workers in the Irish Banking sector arising from the Government's announcement on the future structure of the Irish banking sector; this Conference calls on the Executive Council to seek to conclude an agreement...