Economy

This Conference notes that due to neo-liberal economic policies and the Celtic Tiger bubble in the case of the Republic of Ireland that higher income earners have fared much better in both percentage and actual pay terms than lower paid workers over the past...

Congress regards the current economic and financial crisis as one which arises from the nature of our economic and social system. The concentration of economic power in the hands of giant financial and industrial monopolies, which use that power to influence...

Conference calls on Congress to declare our firm opposition to the efforts of the US and other Governments and corporations to criminalise, financially destroy and shut down WikiLeaks. Documents released by WikiLeaks have exposed the criminal record of the US...

Congress believes that austerity measures will damage the recovery and consign a generation of young people to the employment scrapheap. Congress maintains that the economy needs investment in jobs, not austerity. Congress restates its conviction that there is...

Congress expresses its deep concern at the continued erosion of the standard of living of people on low and medium incomes including pensioners in Northern Ireland and in the Republic; Pensioners require the assistance of the trade unions in their campaigns...

Recent figures show an increase in the levels of inequality, deprivation, relative and consistent poverty across Ireland. 5.5% of Ireland's population suffer consistent poverty. Levels of persistent poverty in Northern Ireland children is more than double that...

Conscious of the serious implications for bank workers in the Irish Banking sector arising from the Government's announcement on the future structure of the Irish banking sector; this Conference calls on the Executive Council to seek to conclude an agreement...

This Conference notes that despite constant negativity towards the Public Service Agreement, generated by those who do not believe in public services and who do not care about those citizens who are dependent upon good public services, and despite the arrival...