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Irish Congress of Trade Unions statement on upcoming Equality Referendum


At a meeting today of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions Executive Council, the matter of the announced referendum on gender equality, care and the family was considered. Congress calls on the Government to publish the wording for the referendum in line with the recommendations of the Citizens’...

ICTU Budget 2024 Recommendations - Making Work Pay

Making Work Pay sets out Congress’s key policy recommendations, for the short and for the medium terms. Crucially, we believe tax cuts as proposed by government would not just make it even more difficult to meet pre-existing and future challenges but would be pro-cyclical and inflationary given the...

Global Solidarity Summer School

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Armagh City Hotel, Friary Road, Armagh, County Armagh, Northern Ireland

Looking forward to receiving delegates from unions right across the island to discuss our role in being part of the international trade union global solidarity...
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Stop the Stigma


Time to Stop the Stigma ! At our Women’s Conference last September 2022, in the shadow of Slieve Donard – the highest of the Mourne mountains - a group of determined women vowed to remove the issue of menstruation and menopause in our workplaces from the shadows. In response to motions from Fórsa...

BDC 2023 Agenda

The agenda contains the timetable of business and all of the motions to Biennial Delegate Conference 2023. It also details Standing Orders Report No. 1, the nominations to BDC 2023, and the full list of fringe events taking place over the 3 days.

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International Labour Conference 2023 - David Joyce speech


Speech of David Joyce, Irish Worker Delegate I congratulate the DG for choosing the issue of advancing social justice for both his report to the ILC and his initiative for a new Global Coalition. On this special day, the World Day against child labour, let me start by saying that the abolition of...
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Congress stands in solidarity with LGBT in Uganda


Congress Global Solidarity is appalled by the enactment of the harsh anti-LGBT+ law in Uganda that further criminalises LGBT+ people, civil society, and public health advocates. This is one of the world’s toughest anti-LGBT+ laws, which includes the death penalty. Simply identifying as LGBT+ will be...

Workers and the EU - Reflections on Ireland's Membership

To mark 50 years of Ireland in the European Union, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions has published this collection of essays by current and former trade union leaders reflecting on the impact of EU membership on workers’ rights over the years. Our general secretary Owen Reidy said: “While...

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Action plan to tackle the far right


“The far-right does not represent working people – trade unions do”, the message contained in a powerful anti-racist short video that was released by the ICTU on May Day. Congress General Secretary Owen Reidy said ‘the video is part of an overall plan by unions to counter the far right and to...
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