Social Policy

Conference notes the shortage of apprentices in a number of crafts in the construction sector. This is compounded by the fact that employers in the sector are refusing to recognise qualifications as a requirement to employment. Employers have created an...

Conference notes the increasing industrial relations tensions within the energy sector across the Island of Ireland, and in particular the pressures placed on members as a result of uncertainty on employment security and incomes. We believe that many of these...

Securing decent jobs in the financial services is the core aim of Financial Services Union (FSU). A declining traditional retail banking sector has seen the loss of thousands of decent jobs. These jobs had union recognition, good conditions, pensions and...

This conference calls for all publicly funded projects to only be awarded on the basis of total compliance with Sectoral Employment Orders, Registered Employment Agreements and National Collective Employment Agreements where applicable and that any contractor...

Conference believes that awarding public contracts to anti-trade union companies facilitates and encourages anti-worker behaviour on the part of employers. By awarding contracts to companies which do not respect the right of staff to collectively bargain the...

Conference acknowledges the work of the Executive Council on the issue of bogus self- employment. This work practice has been bought to the fore in the media and has brought an awareness of the issue to the public in general. This precarious work practice...

Conference notes that since the foundation of our movement, trade unions have had to face down the scourge of precarious work on this Island. Today exploitative work practices exist in both traditional and newer forms. A significant proportion of the working...

The retail sector is witnessing an increasing number of employers deploying significant resources and energy to ensure their extremely profitable businesses either remain union free or that existing union structures are undermined. This is a coordinated...

This conference recognises the disaster that welfare reform has been for the poorest in our communities in Northern Ireland. Low paid workers have been hit particularly hard by Universal Credit and, for them, there have been no mitigations payments available...

That this conference reasserts its support for a wholly publicly-owned NHS providing locally- accessible healthcare to all, free at the point of delivery and funded adequately through general and progressive taxation – that is for an NHS based on its...