Economy

This ICTU Congress recognises that, due to the impact of the economic crisis, thousands of workers in the retail sector continue to face the threat of redundancy and under-employment. Congress recognises that the economic downturn has had a devastating impact...

Recognising that rank-and-file bank workers were not responsible for the crisis in Irish banking but have nevertheless made considerable sacrifices since the beginning of the banking crisis in 2008 both in terms of their personal finances and in terms of the...

Conference calls upon the Government to act decisively and without further delay to protect defined benefit pension schemes and to move towards universal occupational pensions coverage via mandatory tripartite savings schemes. It considers that it is...

Conference directs the incoming Executive Council to express its genuine concern over the Government's JobBridge scheme, as it currently exists, without any oversight or direction from the Trade Union movement. The existing scheme depresses genuine job...

Conference acknowledges with deep concern the increasing issue of precarious work, combining very high levels of flexibility with very low levels of job security, as a growing phenomenon in Ireland and the fact that precarious work has received little...

That this Conference condemns the decision of the previous Government to socialise the banking debts by placing the full burden on the backs of the Irish citizens. The Conference further notes that the current Government has failed to fundamentally change this...

Congress is appalled at the European Unio continued drive towards neo-liberal austerity, its erosion of workers rights and its intensifying use of unemployment as its main economic regulator.Congress believes the decision of the EU that resulted in the...

This conference notes the ICTU document. The Case for the Financial Transaction Tax, which argues that the financial sector, having absorbed large amounts of taxpayers money should make a fair contribution to the recovery. Since the publication of this report...

The Irish economies in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are entering into an extended period of stagnation. This is the result of the current austerity policies of the Fine Gael/Labour Government in the Republic and the Conservative/Lib Dem...

Noting that this is the fifth year of the EU/ECB/IMF programme Conference records its deep concern at the absence of any obvious end to the hardship being endured by workers. In particular the destructive consequences for families of high levels of structural...