Health & Safety

Cancer care

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2016

This conference notes that 30,000 men in GB are living with terminal prostrate cancer but are not being offered enough care and support to combat the disease. This Conference instructs the NIC to join with other interested organisations to obtain from the...

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

Maximising the public health workforce

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2016

The Public Health Agency (PHA) recognises that reducing health inequalities is central to ensuring economic and social progress and that reducing entrenched health inequalities is not something that the PHA alone can achieve. In 2015 the Royal Society of...

Adopted

Implementation of Clare’s Law in Northern Ireland

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2016

Domestic abuse affects 1 in 4 women. PSNI respond to a domestic incident every 23 minutes. Many perpetrators are serial perpetrators going from woman to woman. Presently women do not have the right to know if their partner has a history of domestic violence...

Adopted

Violence against Women and Girls

Motion no

Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2016

Conference is appalled at the level of violence against women and girls in all parts of our society, including at the workplace. Conference notes the survey undertaken by the Women’s Committee in 2014 on the impact of domestic violence on the workplace which...

Adopted

FIFA's squalid secret

Sharan Burrow - General Secretary of the ITUC - says a new report on human rights could finally force FIFA to do the right thing for workers in Qatar. Thousands of workers building the 2022 FIFA World Cup facilities and infrastructure in Qatar are forced to live as modern day slaves. They are housed...

Report on Childcare Costs & Practices (Congress 2016)

14 Mar, 2016

Report on problems facing the Childcare sector in Ireland and the issues for working families. The report includes a survey of 3700 people using childcare and contains a number of key recommendations.

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22 Sep, 2015

NUJ Guidance on Online Abuse (Social Media Seminar, Sept 15)

Referendum on Water Supply and Treatment

Motion no

Biennial Delegate Conference 2015

Conference fully supports the decision of the Executive Council of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions to demand a referendum to enshrine the public ownership, supply, treatment and management of water in Ireland in the Irish Constitution as a power of the...

Adopted

Universal Health Service - An Essential Social Good

Motion no

Biennial Delegate Conference 2015

This conference, noting: six years of unparalleled cutbacks, both in terms of financial and human resources, imposed upon the public health service; the resulting contraction of essential health services, as a result, causing hardship and upset to ordinary...

Adopted

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Cancer care

Health and Social Services – Time for Radical Change

Maximising the public health workforce

Implementation of Clare’s Law in Northern Ireland

Violence against Women and Girls

FIFA's squalid secret

Report on Childcare Costs & Practices (Congress 2016)

online-abuse-nuj-guidance-nov-2013-1

Referendum on Water Supply and Treatment

Universal Health Service - An Essential Social Good

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