Industrial Relations

Manufacturing Industry

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2018

Northern Ireland’s manufacturing industry employs more than 85,000 people and contributes the bulk of our exports (£7 billion a year) and 14% of our total GVA. Conference notes with dismay that despite the overriding significance of the sector we still do not...

Adopted

The Future of the Retail Sector

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2018

Congress notes that the rapid development of technology is a cause for concern amongst many retail workers in Northern Ireland. Congress believes that much of the speculation about jobs being replaced by technology fails to recognise the vital human contact...

Adopted

Maritime Industry

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2018

Conference continues to oppose the ongoing practice of nationality based pay discrimination in the commercial shipping industry which undercuts and excludes seafarers on both sides of the Irish Sea. Conference notes with concern that operators such as Seatruck...

Adopted

Facility Time

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2018

Conference condemns the attempt by Civil Service Management to attack the longstanding secondment arrangements which have been in place for many years on two of NIPSA’s high profile activists. This runs alongside the attempts to or stop the facility time of...

Adopted

Technology and Robotics for Better Work and Better Lives

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2018

Rapid advances in technology and robotics are presenting an urgent challenge to workers and society. The trade union movement must be prepared to challenge the drive by employers to undermine jobs, wages and conditions by the introduction of new technology...

Adopted

Precarious Working

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2018

Conference notes the recent Congress report on precarious employment that has highlighted that precarious working practices are now pervasive throughout both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Conference further notes that in the Republic of Ireland...

Adopted

Better Work Better Lives

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2018

This Conference congratulates the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (Northern Ireland Committee) on the launch of the “Better Work Better Lives” campaign which is aimed at bringing better quality work opportunities to the Northern Ireland economy. In launching...

Adopted

Better Work Better Lives

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2018

Conference notes the challenges faced by workers in both the private and public sectors in Northern Ireland. We have endured nearly a decade of austerity from the UK government and the NI Assembly leading to cuts to our public services, the 1% pay cap and more...

Adopted

Are Young People Hostile to Trade Unions?

Kurt Vandaele, Senior Researcher at the European Trade Union Institute, looks at how young workers can be attracted into trade unions The percentage of employees paying union dues has almost universally declined across Europe in recent decades. Moreover, much of the unions' existing membership base...

Competition Amendment Bill 2016

Motion no

Biennial Delegate Conference 2017

This Biennial Delegate Conference notes the all- party support in both houses of the Oireachtas for the Competition Amendment Bill 2016. In welcoming legislation aimed at restoring the right of collective representation to categories of workers, including...

Adopted

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Are Young People Hostile to Trade Unions?

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