Economy

People Deserve Better from Government

General Secretary Patricia King outlnes the key policy prioriteies that Congress has put to the new government. (The full document Policy Priorities for Workers is available to download ) The new government may fall short on numbers, but it cannot afford to fall short on ambition. Their ambition...

Exploitation of seafarers

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2016

Conference remains deeply concerned at the impact on domestic seafarers from ferry operators trading in the Irish Sea who recruit crews from outside the minimum wage. For example Conference notes that Polish seafarer ratings employed by freight operator...

Adopted

NHS funding

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2016

This Conference is concerned at the continued under-funding of the NHS. This is putting lives at risk and is causing Patients’ anxiety and distress in particular when treatment is cancelled. The underfunding has resulted in the local NHS trusts having to...

Adopted

Health and Social Services – Time for Radical Change

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2016

Our health and social care system is once again awash with a series of reviews. This continuous review syndrome has been used as a smokescreen to avoid the radical change necessary to produce a public health system to meet the needs of the people. Meanwhile...

Adopted

Workers Advisory Clinic

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2016

Reductions in the funding for Citizens Advice Bureau’s and other advisory services has left workers in non-unionised workplaces without adequate access to employment advice and support. Employers are able to breach employment law, behave despicably...

Remitted

Trade Union Bill

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2016

Conference is opposed to the ongoing attacks by the Westminster Government on a raft of anti-trade union legislation such as the Trade Union Bill and other employment laws. Conference welcomes that the NI Assembly have not sought to introduce these draconian...

Adopted

Rural Jobs and Services

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2016

"Conference recognises that austerity’s affects are most severe on the most vulnerable, both individuals and communities. Conference notes with alarm that rural communities have suffered worst from cuts to services, which have had a severe impact on the...

Adopted

UTV

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2016

Ulster Television was an independent cash rich television broadcasting company that paid very little for its television franchise yet continued to maximise its profits without really investing much in its programme and broadcasting production output within...

Adopted

TTIP

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2016

“This Conference is extremely concerned by ongoing international trade negotiations that will most certainly endanger government’s ability to regulate, and citizen’s rights to access basic public services; e.g. water, health and energy all for the sake of...

Adopted

Manufacturing Support – Energy and Transport.

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2016

Conference calls upon the incoming Executive to work with its affiliated unions to: Campaign for the return of Northern Ireland Electricity to the ownership and control of Northern Ireland allowing the adoption of a pricing policy which will support the...

Adopted

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Exploitation of seafarers

NHS funding

Health and Social Services – Time for Radical Change

Workers Advisory Clinic

Trade Union Bill

Rural Jobs and Services

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TTIP

Manufacturing Support – Energy and Transport.

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