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Belfast 4-6 July 2017 Report of Proceedings of Biennial Delegate Conference 2017 Belfast 4-6 July 2017 1 Tuesday 4 July 2017 Morning Session Kevin Callinan, Vice-President A chairde, cuir fáilte roimh Uachtaráin na hEireann, Michael O’Higin, ladies and gentlemen please welcome the President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins. Brian Campfield, President Okay Conference, thank you very much and thank you for being patient. It’s now my pleasure to introduce and call upon Councillor Nuala McAllister the Lord Mayor of Belfast to give a short welcome to delegates. Nuala McAllister, Councillor Good morning delegates and I welcome you all too sunny Belfast this morning. President Higgins, President of ICTU Brian Campfield, ladies and gentlemen I am delighted to welcome the Irish Congress of Trade Unions Conference to the city of Belfast. It is also a great privilege and honour to extend a very special welcome on behalf of the citizens of Belfast to the President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins. President Higgins it is notable on your first official visit to Belfast in 2012 you gave an address to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions Women’s conference, and so it is a pleasure to welcome you back here today to speak to us all here this morning. Belfast has a very proud trade union history and we actually have two stained glass windows in City Hall to commemorate that heritage. The first window is of James Larkin, a giant in the Irish Labour Movement and the founding father of the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union. The second window unveilled in 2014 is an illustration of Belfast women mill workers and the struggles that women have faced in our history. So if you have not been to City Hall I urge you to come and visit both of the stained glass windows and our new exhibition area. We have come a long way in Belfast but there is still much to be done. Belfast is on the cusp of change. In my year as Lord Mayor my aim is to promote Belfast on an international stage as an inclusive, welcoming and open city that is open to tourists, citizens and investors alike. That is why Global Belfast is the theme for my year. It develops our status as a global city, building on our rich history as world leaders in ship building, the linen industry, literature and music, telling and selling the Belfast story. But it is not something as a Council can do alone, we need to work in partnership with the people who are crucial to the life and the progress of Belfast. And that is why I was delighted to come and speak to you here today, because we will be working alongside our trade unions, and most importantly to work alongside ICTU as a whole. I hope that you enjoy the coming days. I see that you have many deliberations and motions. I was particularly delighted to see you have motions in the gender pay gap and reproductive rights for women, and for perinatal mental health because these are issues that are so personal to me. So I wish you every success and again I thank the President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins for joining us today. Thank you very much. 2 Brian Campfield, President Thank you very much Lord Mayor for that address. It is now my pleasure to introduce the next speaker, who we will all know just by of a little back round, President Michael D Higgins began work in non-unionised setting it was a factory in the Shannon Industrial Estate. When he moved to Galway to take up a position as a Grade 8 Clerk in ESB, the ESBOA way was his first union. It had a strong social vision, a social policy for its members, and an interest in international aid. His next union was the Workers’ Union of Ireland, and when he became a lecturer in 1969 he founded the Teaching Section of the Workers’ Union of Ireland and he competed with Kadar Asmal who many of you will remember from his Anti-Apartheid campaigning, he competed with Kadar Asmal who was recruiting for the Irish Federation of University Teachers at that time, so there was a little bit of healthy competition, hopefully which hasn’t gone away. Michael D has been a trade union member for 50 years now this year, and should also say that Sabina his wife was a member of Equity, and they both began moving from the respective unions until, as a result of mergers both of them have ended up in SIPTU. Now you can decide for yourselves whether that’s a good thing or not but anyway, just to say interestingly President Higgins’ first researched in Sociology involved preparing a report on the rise of the Galway Dockers with whom he spent a year at the docks gathering research, so that’s something most of you won’t have known. I now wish to invite Michael D Higgins, Uachtaráin na hEireann to address this Biennial Delegate Conference. Michael D Higgins, President of Ireland Let me say at the outset how pleased I am to be invited to address you here today. As I listened to my introduction I indeed felt that I am among old friends. It is true, I have been a member of a trade union for 49½ years. I would like to thank Brian Campfield of NIPSA, your President, for the invitation to speak here this morning and of course Patricia King, your General Secretary, she and I go back some time together in our previous incarnations, she represented staff in Leinster House, and I was a then as member of another division of the Oireachtas to which I now fill. Your movement with over 700,000 members in over 40 affiliated unions is Ireland’s largest civic society body. Your contribution to the evolution of politics, economy and society in every part of this Island has been essential, and looking back at history and it has been emancipatory in so many ways. I am also pleased to be speaking here in Belfast, and indeed I very much agree with your Lord Mayor because I am conscious of the importance of this city, Belfast, to the wider Irish and United Kingdom labour movement. With Manchester, Belfast emerged as one of the very earliest industrial cities of the world, in which a trade union movement would emerge, face obstacles, and succeed in establishing what is yet the unfinished project of the deepending of the rights of workers. It was in this place that the young James Larkin, the organiser of Unionists and Nationalists on the dockside, received his formal introduction to Irish politics, and the possibly even more complex politics of the Irish Labour Movement. As President, it has been a privilege to be asked to speak of the role of Larkin, Connolly and other trade unionists, and particularly of the brave and neglected women trade unionists and their importance to our history in the late 19th and early 20th Century. These were themes I addressed very early on in my Presidency for example in the Littleton Lecture on the Lockout of 1913, and again when I gave the second Phelan Lecture at the invitation of the International Labour Organisation on the theme of ‘The Future of Work’. As I was preparing my remarks for our meeting, I was struck by how clearly certain aspects of the trade union movement had retained a special place in my memories. The dominant image I recover 3 is of banners, bands, marches, and speeches in the public space – great speeches – which people would debate upon the way home, and some of the phrases of which they would make their own as they spoke in different places afterwards. That is a proud tradition and one thinks of how it makes its way into the hearts of those who were struggling for freedom in their different ways. There are hundreds of songs on the theme of ‘I’m off to join the union’. ‘Joe Hill’, the song of the Swedish- American organiser of the Industrial Workers of the World, executed after a deplorable trial in 1915, is just one example and the early trade union organisers all realised the importance of culture, of time spent together, of music, of sharing of songs in whose rendering workers competed for excellence. This is true when we look back at the history of the docks, of the mines, and of the factories. It is part of the symbolic life of a collective that shares values. It is the very antithesis of isolated extreme individualism. What I have been describing is a powerful tradition, one from which the Civil Rights Movements, the Anti-Apartheid Movement, and Equal Rights Movements here and worldwide could call on for support. It is important that on all parts of this Island we acknowledge the role of the trade union movement from its beginnings down to our times in consistently opposing sectarianism. The trade union movement has also been international, an international movement that correctly sees, as Edward Phelan did in his day, for example in his Harris Lecture with John Maynard Keynes in 1931, that migrating unemployment from one setting to another setting wage levels in competition with each other in a downward cycle could be disastrous for global economics, was simply bad economics. You give a great example of your internationalism at your Conference these days by organising fringe events, inviting Omar Barghouti who will speak on the challenge continuing to face Palestine, and Huber Ballesteros, of the Colombian Trade Union Movement, whose leaders have been assassinated, and whose members have been decimated, inviting him to your conference is an important act of solidarity.
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