A MAJOR trade union conference on Ireland is being planned for 28 November this year. Entitled 'Ireland - the cause of labour?' the conference is initiated by the Labour Committee on Ireland.
It will centre on employment discrimination in the North, wiere Many discriminatory recruitment policy. Unemployment in the Six Counties is two-and-a-half times greater amongst Catholics than amongs Protestants.
Nobel peace prize winner and internationally respected lawyer, patron. MacBride is associated with employment discrimination code, the 'MacBride Principles'.
The first session 'Are you listening?' and will be the occasion for Irish trade unionists to give a first-hand account of the situation.
Repression in the miners' strike and at Wapping has alerted many in the British labour movement to some of the realities of life in the north. The British NUM voted for British withdrawal at the Labour Party conference.
In NALGO, the national executive convened a meeting of branches which have moved resolutions on the Irish question over the past two years with a view to scheduling a major discussion at this year's anna concicice. weekend schools have been organised.
To build on such developments and promote the conference, fringe meetings are planned at many trade union conferences and a campaign for broad sponsorship for the conterence in underway firms have an openly uprising, with murder. One police office even cance cal le the brothers was 'the the death of ringleader in PC Blakelock'.
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