Inequality in the Arts

Motion no
20
Biennial Delegate Conference 2015
Inequality is often rife throughout all industries within the North and South of Ireland. It is, however, particularly prevalent within the cultural industries where people are often cast or given work on the basis of nepotism and the old boy network. It is...
Adopted

Low Pay/Inequality

Motion no
14
Biennial Delegate Conference 2015
Conference notes with concern the increasing problem of inequality in society as analysed by the French economist, Thomas Piketty. There is now widespread agreement that liberalisation, particularly of finance, led to massive rises in inequality and had a...
Adopted

Peace, Progress and Equality

Motion no
6
Biennial Delegate Conference 2015
Congress endorses the anti-austerity campaign waged by NIC-ICTU and our affiliates and commits the full support of Congress across the entire island of Ireland. In the deeply divided and unequal society that is Northern Ireland the stance taken by Congress to...
Adopted
child by fence

UnionMIgrantNet registration portal opens


The ETUC led UnionMigrantNet portal is now ready and full operational. Following a Network Building Conference in Turin in 2014, and after one year of pilot action and testing phase, the network is now open to all those who wish to join it. The portal is composed of two sections: 1. a " social...
workplace women meeting

Women's Views Women's Voices


150 delegates from North South East and West gather in Belfast for our annual event during week of International Women's Day. Press release for Event and International Women's Day It is one of final public appearances of David Begg, outgoing Congress General Secretary who addressed those gathered...
workplace women meeting

Women's Lives Matter


Eileen Dinning* If we are over 50% of the population, where are we in the power game ? Well, not that prominent, if truth be told. Media wise we see increasingly more women in positions of power. From senior politicians, NHS Chief Executives and Chief Constables, women's profile is higher than it...
Crossing crowd

Decent Work at Heart of Ethical Society


Guy Ryder, Director General of the International Labour Organisation With 12 million of the more than 23 million unemployed Europeans looking for work for one year or more, many people do not have what some may consider the 'luxury' of a job. The financial crisis that began in 2008 is still causing...
David Begg

Inequality a Natural Outcome of Austerity


David Begg, Congress General Secretary The Yale Professor, Robert Shiller, used his 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics acceptance speech to state that: "The most important problem that we are facing now today, I think, is rising inequality in the United States and elsewhere in the world." The truth of...
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