International

Unions condemn Trump's withdrawal from Paris Agreement

Trade Unions in the United States and around the world, have condemned President Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement. We are not fooled by false promises of a sustainable future in fossil fuel industries and are clearer than ever that there are no jobs on a dead planet. AFL-CIO President...

Mayday leaflet produced by the European Trade Union Initiative for Justice in Palestine

See Mayday leaflet produced by the European Trade Union Initiative for Justice in Palestine. Please distribute widely among your members.

UK Prime Minister has not Addressed Uncertainty Facing Workers North and South

The UK Prime Minister, Theresa May, has done little to address the major uncertainty facing workers across the island of Ireland as a result of Brexit, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions has said. The issue of Brexit and its implications for workers on both sides of the border was discussed at the...

Esther Lynch European Trade Union Confederation ETUC

European Pillar of Social Rights Offers New Hope for Social Europe

The EU is slowly emerging from the worst economic crisis in its history. One of major casualties of that crisis was the European Social Model, undermined and weakened by the official response to a meltdown in the financial system. Fundamental social rights and public services have been sacrificed...

Bethlehem Passport presented to INTO employee and SIPTU member Elaine Daly

In October 2016, Elaine Daly was awarded honorary citizenship of the city of Bethlehem and presented with a "Bethlehem Passport". The passport is issued by the Open Bethlehem Campaign in partnership with the Governate of Bethlehem. It does not grant actual citizenship - but is rather a symbolic...

Congress visits Colombian Trade Union political prisoner

Congress Vice President, Kevin Callinan, yesterday (1 December 2016) visited union leader and political prisoner, Huber Ballesteros, in his prison cell the day after the Colombian Congress ratified the peace agreement. The struggle goes on. More on Huber and other political prisoners in Colombia...

Trade Union statement on the Nairobi Outcome Document (NOD) of the 2nd High Level Meeting (HLM2) of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC), Nairobi, Kenya, 28 November-1 December 2016

Trade Unions at HLM2: Trade Unions were well represented at the GPEDC HLM2 as speakers in the various plenary and amphitheatre sessions on taking stock of development effectiveness, GPEDC-2030 Agenda synergies, private sector, south-south cooperation, youth and women and multi-stakeholder...

Meeting with Mexican Human Rights Defenders

David Joyce, Congress, met today with two Mexican women human rights defenders - Cristina Auerbach and María Esmeralda Saldana - here on a visit hosted by PBI Ireland. They are in Dublin to speak to a number of Irish organizations and Government representatives about Business and Human Rights...

All Island Forum on Brexit

02 Nov, 2016

Opening statement from Patricia king

Congress Global Solidarity Committee refugee camps in Calais

Welcome to the 'Jungle'

Ashling Seely and Yvonne O'Callaghan of the Congress Global Solidarity Committee report on a visit to refugee camps in Calais and Dunkirk, against the backdrop of a disappointing outcome from the recent UN Summit on Refugees & Migrants in New York The New York Declaration falls far short of what is...