Motions

Conference condemns the attempt by Civil Service Management to attack the longstanding secondment arrangements which have been in place for many years on two of NIPSA’s high profile activists. This runs alongside the attempts to or stop the facility time of...

Congress is alarmed by the blatant disregard in too many post-primary schools of the Health, Safety and Welfare of teachers, support staff and students in practical subjects. Congress is deeply concerned that in response to requests by some principals a...

Conference (i) notes with concern the growing number of assaults, both physical and verbal, by parents and pupils on teachers and other education workers which go unreported in schools. (ii) further notes the zero tolerance approach to assaults on workers in...

Conference continues to oppose the ongoing practice of nationality based pay discrimination in the commercial shipping industry which undercuts and excludes seafarers on both sides of the Irish Sea. Conference notes with concern that operators such as Seatruck...

Conference notes with disappointment that the current political crisis continues with no restoration of devolution in sight in the short term. Whilst the restoration of locally devolved government is not a panacea to all our problems, it is a necessary...

As we meet, it is approximately 450 days since the NI Assembly was suspended. With still no progress on the re-establishment of the executive in Northern Ireland one of the unintended consequences is that significant decision are being made with no democratic...

That this conference expresses reiterates its opposition to a Tory Hard Brexit which threatens a devastating impact on workers, women and those from migrant communities. While a Hard Brexit threatens to affect Northern Ireland workers directly, the form our...

Conference: [a] condemns the reckless pursuit of a hard Brexit by elements within the United Kingdom government. [b] instructs the NIC to lobby the parties to the Brexit negotiations to ensure that trade unions headquartered outside of the UK have their right...

Conference believes that countering the potential negative impacts that exiting the EU will have on our members, their families, communities and the wider peace process must remain a key objective. Conference notes that ICTU has campaigned since the result of...

Conference notes that the real-terms cuts in wages are a consequence of a deliberate policy by UK, and devolved administrations, to implement a combination of pay freezes and pay caps for the majority of public sector workers. It is estimated that civil...