ICTU Budget 2024 Recommendations - Making Work Pay

Making Work Pay sets out Congress’s key policy recommendations, for the short and for the medium terms. Crucially, we believe tax cuts as proposed by government would not just make it even more difficult to meet pre-existing and future challenges but would be pro-cyclical and inflationary given the...

BDC 2023 Agenda

The agenda contains the timetable of business and all of the motions to Biennial Delegate Conference 2023. It also details Standing Orders Report No. 1, the nominations to BDC 2023, and the full list of fringe events taking place over the 3 days.

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International Labour Conference 2023 - David Joyce speech


Speech of David Joyce, Irish Worker Delegate I congratulate the DG for choosing the issue of advancing social justice for both his report to the ILC and his initiative for a new Global Coalition. On this special day, the World Day against child labour, let me start by saying that the abolition of...

Workers and the EU - Reflections on Ireland's Membership

To mark 50 years of Ireland in the European Union, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions has published this collection of essays by current and former trade union leaders reflecting on the impact of EU membership on workers’ rights over the years. Our general secretary Owen Reidy said: “While...

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Auto-enrolment legislation must be a priority for all politicians


The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has called on all politicians from across the political divide to prioritise the introduction of auto-enrolment legislation. Responding to the publication of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection’s pre-legislative scrutiny of the Automatic Enrolment...
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Action plan to tackle the far right


“The far-right does not represent working people – trade unions do”, the message contained in a powerful anti-racist short video that was released by the ICTU on May Day. Congress General Secretary Owen Reidy said ‘the video is part of an overall plan by unions to counter the far right and to...
The Trade Union Response to the Right to Request Remote Work Bill

ICTU welcomes new rights to improve workers’ work life balance


Responding to the passing of the Work-Life Balance Bill by both Houses of the Oireachtas, Irish Congress of Trade Unions general secretary Owen Reidy said: “This important legislation delivers a suite of measures to make it easier for workers to combine their professional and personal lives....
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ICTU welcomes new rights to improve workers’ work life balance


Responding to the passing of the Work-Life Balance Bill by both Houses of the Oireachtas, Irish Congress of Trade Unions general secretary Owen Reidy said: “This important legislation delivers a suite of measures to make it easier for workers to combine their professional and personal lives....
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