Industrial Relations

Human intelligence must dictate AI at work - Séamus Dooley

Labour history conference to hear call for ILO Convention on digital transformation The need for national governments, European and international organisations to develop a right based approach to the application of artificial intelligence in the workplace has been stressed by Séamus Dooley...

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...

Presidential address to the Biennial Delegate Conference

Kevin Callinan – Presidential address to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions Biennial Delegate Conference, 4 July 2023 in Kilkenny Delegates and friends Twenty months ago at the close of our last BDC in Belfast, I said that if we continued to fight yesterday's battles we would lose tomorrow's war. It...

BDC 2023 Agenda

04 Jul, 2023

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.

ICTU BDC Report of Executive Council 2021-2023

04 Jul, 2023

Congress stands with workers at RTÉ

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has expressed grave concern at the ongoing crisis in RTÉ and called on the board of the public service broadcaster to make the restoration of public trust a key priority. Owen Reidy, General Secretary said: “Public service broadcasting is vital to the functioning...

Artificial Intelligence in the workplace - Dr. Laura Bambrick

Opening statement by Dr Laura Bambrick to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment on AI in the workplace Chair, Deputies, Senators, On behalf of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions I would like to thank the Committee for the invitation to input in to your discussions on...

No case for retention of temporary VAT rate for hospitality industry - ICTU

ICTU has said that there is no logical case for the retention of the 9% ‘temporary’ reduction in VAT for the hospitality industry as suggested in a report by the Irish Tourism Industry Confederation today. Congress General Secretary Owen Reidy said, “Like all businesses, the hospitality sector...

ICTU support the call from the INMO for mandated mask wearing in congregated settings

The ICTU General Secretary, Owen Reidy today supported the call from the INMO for mandated mask wearing in congregated settings. He said "The annual winter health crisis is clearly worse this year due to a number of factors. We are very concerned for our frontline workers in our hospitals and in...

Pay Bargaining Guidance for Private Sector Unions 2023

The Congress Private Sector Committee has published Pay Bargaining Guidance for Unions in the Private Sector for 2023. The Committee has taken note of the various forecasts of the likely rate of inflation and core inflation in the coming year and has recommended the unions seek to secure, where...

Subscribe to Industrial Relations