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...
PEACE PROCESS MUST BE BUILT ON JUSTICE FOR COLOMBIA
Assistant General Secretary Peter Bunting on the recent peace deal in Colombia and at the trade union role in the wider peace process It appears peace has finally come to Colombia and Latin America's longest-running conflict is at an end. The peace accord between government and FARC rebels is...
Global Issues, Local Action
David Joyce delves into some of the key issues to be tacked at the Global Solidarity Summer School Global challenges & Opportunities: Local & Global Responses is the theme for the 2016 Global Solidarity Summer School, which takes place this year in Donegal. This is the eight successive incarnation...
Solidarity with Korean Trade Unions
Following a call for solidarity via the ITUC, Congress wrote to the Korean authorities regarding the KCTU President Han Sang-gyun and the likelihood of him facing an 8-year imprisonment for combined charges against him by the Korean government. His 5 year sentence was since announced by the Korean...
Exploitation of seafarers
Motion no
38
Conference remains deeply concerned at the impact on domestic seafarers from ferry operators trading in the Irish Sea who recruit crews from outside the minimum wage. For example Conference notes that Polish seafarer ratings employed by freight operator...
Adopted
Action against racism
Motion no
24
Conference is concerned at the current crisis whereby over a million citizens of Syria and other Middle Eastern countries are displaced because of the political and humanitarian crisis in these countries. No-one can fail to have been moved by the pictures...
Adopted
TTIP
Motion no
11
“This Conference is extremely concerned by ongoing international trade negotiations that will most certainly endanger government’s ability to regulate, and citizen’s rights to access basic public services; e.g. water, health and energy all for the sake of...
Adopted
TTIP
Motion no
10
Conference notes the ongoing campaigns to oppose the Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership. While some public events have been organised to raise awareness of the impact on local communities and services, conference notes that not enough is known...
Adopted
European Union Referendum
Motion no
7
Conference notes that the referendum on membership of the European Union (EU) will be held by the end of 2017 and could be as early as June/July 2016. This will be an important decision for workers in Northern Ireland. A number of key workers' rights and...
Adopted
