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Social Progress

Motion no

Biennial Delegate Conference 2017

Conference directs the incoming Executive Council to lay out a clear perspective for the optimum degree of social progress that can be achieved in both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland over the period extending to the centenary of the founding of the...

Adopted

A Victory for Respect, Solidarity, Trade Unions & the Beautiful Game

Ethel Buckley, SIPTU Services Divisional Organiser on how the Irish women's national football team stood together to win a new deal from the FAI !n the early hours of Thursday, April 6, SIPTU and Professional Footballers Association of Ireland (PFAI) representatives secured a landmark agreement with...

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...

Support for Skills and Education

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2016

Conference calls on the incoming Executive to work with its affiliated unions to: Campaign to demand the NI Executive fully restores the full Educational Maintenance Allowance payment to students pursuing education and training opportunities and aged 16-18...

Adopted

Collective Bargaining

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2016

Under the cover of ‘austerity’ many governments have seized the opportunity to advance the neo-liberal agenda and slash public services, public employment and the provision of services. In consequence, living standards have dropped for the mass of the people...

Adopted

Charter of Rights

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2016

This conference in wishes a greater focus upon employment rights in the forthcoming Assembly elections and seeks that NIC ICTU issues a Charter for Fair Conditions at Work to be distributed to all Political Parties standing in the election. The Charter should...

Adopted

Health and Social Services – Time for Radical Change

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2016

Our health and social care system is once again awash with a series of reviews. This continuous review syndrome has been used as a smokescreen to avoid the radical change necessary to produce a public health system to meet the needs of the people. Meanwhile...

Adopted

Grandparent Carers

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2016

Conference recognises that finding childcare on bank holidays, at weekends, in the evening and/or early morning remains a serious challenge for parents in Northern Ireland. Paying for this care presents parents with yet another challenge. Given this, many...

Adopted

Alliance for Choice – Trust Women

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2016

Conference applauds the Alliance for Choice campaign – ‘Trust Women’, and calls on all candidates in the forthcoming Assembly elections to: TRUST WOMEN to make decisions about their own lives Ask for LEGAL CHANGE to allow greater access Push for a FREE VOTE on...

Adopted

Action against racism

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2016

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

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Social Progress

A Victory for Respect, Solidarity, Trade Unions & the Beautiful Game

European Pillar of Social Rights Offers New Hope for Social Europe

Support for Skills and Education

Collective Bargaining

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Health and Social Services – Time for Radical Change

Grandparent Carers

Alliance for Choice – Trust Women

Action against racism

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