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1 Irish Congress of Trade Unions Report of Proceedings Biennial Delegate Conference, 7-9 July 2015 Treacy's West County Hotel IRISH CONGRESS OF TRADE UNIONS REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS BIENNIAL DELEGATE CONFERENCE, 7-9 JULY 2015 TREACY’S WEST COUNTY HOTEL ENNIS, CO CLARE Tuesday 7 July, 2015 Morning Session Opening of Conference John Douglas, President of Congress Is Cllr James Breen in the hall? Is Cllr Pat Daly in the hall? One more call – Cllr James Breen and Cllr Pat Daly, are you in the hall, building? No. Ok, delegates, we are going to start conference so if you could all settle down, take your seats. I am going to call on Tommy Guilfoyle of the TEEU and the President of the Clare Trades Council to address Conference, Tommy. Tommy Guilfoyle, President of Clare Trades Council Just proves my point you can’t trust politicians - here we go. Good morning friends, brothers, sisters, comrades, fraternal guests. My name is Tommy Guilfoyle and as President of Clare of Trades Union, I would like to welcome you all to 2015 ICTU BDC ‘Living Wage Strong Economy’ here in Ennis, County Clare. The theme of this Conference is key to ensuring a better society for our members and all on the island of Ireland. If we can work together and implement the motions we pass over the next 3 days we will move our society in the direction of the aspirations of the 1916 Proclamation. An Island of equals whose State works for its citizens. In order to do this we must organise and politicise our members, organise so that we are at the forefront of workers’ rights and standing up against all social injustices. I must commend all the Unions who have been at the coal face of these struggles in recent years, zero low hour contracts, apprenticeship charges, water charges, marriage equality and privatisation. Politicise so we can elect a government that honours our demands. We need to question historic and current political allegiances. We need to question whose manifesto covers all our demands and choose allegiances wisely come the next general election. We will give our allegiance to the political party who can prove to us they will give us true collective bargaining, ban precarious employment stop fracking, unjust water charges and privatization. This is where our allegiances should lie. The Clare Council of Trade Unions will do all in its power to promote the theme of this year’s Conference. Since 1991 it has managed the Congress unemployment and information centre at Connolly House here in Ennis, supervised by Andrea Lynch. This hard working centre provides for 1 our unemployed or employed and our most venerable. Our centre can grow with the theme of this conference. Please check us out on www.cioc.ie As a union activist and proud TEEU member, I have been a Shop Stewart, a Branch Officer, a Group of Unions Officer, a Worker Director and a fulltime employee employed by TEEU as a full time official. I genuinely appreciate and fully understand all the hard work you do and the commitment and sacrifices you make to fight the good fight. Please continue to fight this fight on behalf of the workers and people of this island and all around the world. Thank you for standing up against neo- liberalism and its continued attempts to pull the workers of this world back to slavery. I wish Conference every success, enjoy the craic agus ol. Fraternal solidarity and keep the faith. John Douglas, President of Congress I now call on Frank Vaughan of Congress to address housekeeping issues. Frank Vaughan, Congress Thank you President, Good morning delegates. I just want to get your attention for a couple of announcements. I gather some of you already this morning had an earlier than anticipated start to the fire alarm on one of the hotels you were in, so you are well-versed to one I am to announce now. But, just in the event of an alarm going off here or being called to evacuate the premises from the top of the hall here, you will see that you’ve got; we have got a number of exits. They are all very clearly marked. Behind me here, over to the right, and we have three further exists on the right and two more on the left down at the back of the hall. We have assembly points on this side over by the water towers, and at the front of the hotel over by the flag stands, in the event of any need to evacuate or leave the room in an orderly way. I have also been asked to announce that we will have a dedicated mini web site for the Conference which will have video clips, photographs and so on and just updates on the progress on motions and schedules and so on. Have we got the address up there? Somewhere - yes you have it. You can see the address there. Third thing is to ask people those of you with phones, devices, any noise making electronic gadget of any sort, if you can please put it on silent for the duration of Conference. We will encourage those of you who use Twitter to tweet prolifically if you wish and the hash tag is #BDC 15 so please use that in any tweets. And finally, just to let you know we have tremendous support from all the staff in the hotel. Here one of the things they will be doing this evening, at the end of Conference, is clearing up the hall and to let you know anything left on the ground, under your seats, or under the tables, will be cleared away. So you can otherwise leave your papers on the table or on the chairs, they will be left intact. Anything else will be cleared so just be wary of that and don’t leave your laptops on the ground. Other than that, I hope you all enjoy Conference, thank you very much. John Douglas, President Thank you Frank. 2 Okay delegates, we’re going to move into the order of business, and the first order of business is the election of five Tellers. I’m proposing the following as Tellers; Brian Hewitt, UNITE; Stephen Lyons, IMPACT; Paul Mac Sweeney CPSU; Alanagh Rae, NIPSA; and Brian Nolan, TEEU. Is that agreed? Agreed. I’m moving on now to the election of five Scrutineers. I’m proposing the following as Scrutineers; Billy Hannigan, PSEU; Eamon Lawless, SIPTU; John Kelleher, AHCPS; Billy Sheehan, INTO; and Marion Geoghegan, IBOA. Is that agreed? Agreed. I now call on Mr. Jack McGinley, Chairperson of Standing Orders to present to Conference Standing Orders Reports No. 1 and No. 2. Jack McGinley Chairperson, Standing Orders Committee Delegate’s Standing Orders Report No 1 is on pages 38 and 39 of the agenda and can I bring the following to your attention at 1.1, the times of the various Conference sessions being today and tomorrow 9.30–5.00 and Thursday 9.30–2.30, unless the business of conference is concluded earlier. Conference will adjourn at 1pm on each day for lunch we will recommence at 2.30pm. No 2- the election of Officers and ordinary members of Congress and Executive Council and the Congress Standing Orders Committee. One nomination has been received for the position of President and Brian Campfield is therefore deemed elected. Two nominations have been received for the two Vice President positions and Sheila Nunan and Kevin Callinan are therefore deemed elected. One nomination has been received for the position of Treasurer and Joe O’ Flynn is therefore deemed elected. Standing Orders Committee notes that Congress has received 34 nominations for election to the ordinary members of the Congress Executive Council and there are 30 seats to be filled. The election of the ordinary members of the Executive Council will be conducted by using single transferable vote. The Congress constitution requires that this election must result in the election of at least eight women. In the event of the outcome of the election of the 30 ordinary members of the Executive Council results in less than eight women being elected then the following procedures shall apply. The last man to be elected among the 30 should be replaced by the last woman to be eliminated. In the event that this does not result in eight women being elected, then the second last man to be elected should be replaced by the second last woman to be eliminated and so on until a minimum requirement of 8 women members is met. The Standing Orders Committee notes that Congress has received two nominations for the position of the Congress Executive Council Local Reserve Panel for Trade Councils. Colm Cronin, from Cork Council of Trade Unions and Betty Tyrell-Collard from Dublin Council of Trade Unions and an election using the single transferable votes system will be held to fill 3 this sea. Standing Orders Committee notes that Congress has received six nominations for the Congress Standing Orders Committee. An election to select the five members of the Standing Orders Committee and the substitute will be conducted using the single transferable system. Ballot papers, I am going to deal with that later in conference, but can I advise everybody to read it so they understand what’s expected. Motions and amendments the Standing Orders Committee has examined the motions and amendments submitted by affiliated organisation, Standing Orders Committee finds that all the motions and amendments on the final agenda are in order. Delegates to conference should note that Motion 12 proposes an amendment to the Congress constitution. Delegates are advised that because this motion proposes an amendment to Section 5, Finance, of the Congress Constitution, a simple majority is required for the motion to pass.
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