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Programme of Business - Congress 2023

The programme of business contains daily debates and timings for Congress 2023, 10- 13 September.

To follow Congress debates, visit the motions website. It will always show the text that is being currently discussed, and will have the full final version of all motions, emergency motions, amendments and composites.


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Sunday 10 September

Music: Ashley Turley

16.00 - 19.00

Approval of tellers

Introduction of sororal/fraternal delegates and visitors

GPC report: GPC chair Linda McCulloch

SECTION 4: WINNING A BETTER FUTURE FOR WORKING PEOPLE

Motion 46 - Fair funding for public services

Motion 47 - Investment in public service

Motion 48 - Public service investment

Para 4.1 - Introduction

Para 4.2 - A strong public sector

Motion 49 - Pay review bodies

Motion 50 - Pay review bodies

Motion 51 - Pay restoration and public sector pay

President’s address and vote of thanks; moved by Dave Ward, CWU, and seconded by Phil Brown, Unite

Video: Congress awards

SECTION 2: THE ECONOMY AND THE COST-OF-LIVING CRISIS

Motion 26 - Ending child poverty - supporting children to learn and grow

Motion 27 - Free school meals

Motion 28 - Regulation on corporate profiteering

Para 2.4 - Workers capital, corporate governance and executive pay

Motion 29 - Financial services supporting the e-disadvantaged

Address by Liz Schuler, president of the AFL-CIO

Obituaries, with live music

End of session


Monday 11 September

Music: Musica Kirklees, Jazz Combo

09.30 - 12.45

Industrial action case study

SECTION 4: WINNING A BETTER FUTURE FOR WORKING PEOPLE

Motion 52 - Working hours and an end to unpaid overtime for midwives and maternity support workers (MSWs)

Motion 53 - Burnout

Motion 54 - Our NHS in crisis

Motion 55  Making midwifery a career accessible to all

Motion 56 - Measures to increase medical students

Motion 57 - Clarity, safety, and fairness in associate practitioner roles

Para 4.3 - NHS

Motion 58 - Standing of education in the UK

Motion 59 - Education workload pressures and retention

Motion 60 - SEND in crisis

Motion 61 - Resources for early intervention and specialist support for children

Para 4.4 - Education

General secretary’s address

SECTION 3: BUILDING A STRONGER MORE DIVERSE MOVEMENT

Motion 31 - Equal work, voice, pay

Motion 32 - Violence at work

Motion 33 - Violence against women and girls

Motion 34 - Tackling sexual violence in the workplace

Motion 35 - Sexual harassment

Motion 36 - More work needed to tackle and prevent sexual harassment in our movement and in the workplace

Para 3.5 - Women

End of session


14:15–17:30

SECTION 2: THE ECONOMY AND THE COST-OF-LIVING CRISIS

Motion 11 - Steel and national security

Para 2.3 - Climate and just transition

Motion 12 - Solidarity with transport workers and renewed campaign for better public transport

Motion 13 - Invest in rail

Para 2.8 - Transport

Motion 14 - Closure of ticket offices

Para 3.4 - Disabled workers

Motion 15 - Tackling flags of convenience and growing domestic shipping

Motion 16 - A tipping point in the climate emergency – we need to act now

Motion 17 - Charting a just transition for maritime professionals

Motion 18 - Unplug the profiteers: the case for public democratic ownership of energy

Para 2.1 - Introduction

Para 2.2 - Pay, the national minimum wage and fair pay agreements

SECTION 1: INDUSTRIAL ACTION AND PROTECTING OUR RIGHTS

Motion 01 - Trade union and employment rights

Motion 02 - Workers’ rights/trade union rights

Motion 03 - Opposing the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill

Motion 04 - Campaign against the Minimum Service Levels Legislation

Motion 05 - Stop employer intimidation and defend the right to strike

Para 1.1 - Introduction

Para 1.2 - Protecting the right to strike

Para 1.3 - Agency worker regulations

Para 1.4 - Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill

Para 1.5 - New deal for workers

Motion 06 - Tackling one-sided flexibility

Para 2.9 - Working time and flexible working

SECTION 5: WORKING TOGETHER AT THE TUC

Motion 74 - Coordinating the trade union movement

Motion 75 - TUC – the next 10 years

Para 3.6 - Solidarity Hub

Para 3.7 - Digital campaigning and organising

Para 3.8 - TUC Education

Para 3.9 - Online training and support for union reps

Para 3.10 - Digital training support for affiliates

Para 3.11 - Unionreps connect 2022

Para 3.12 - TUC Education webinars 2022/23

Para 3.14 - Orgaising Academy

Para 3.15 - Leading Change Programme

Para 3.16 - Review of services

Para 3.17 - Regions and Wales

Motion 76 - The role of trades councils

Motion 77 - National trades unions support for trade councils, solidarity work

Para 5.1 - Introduction

Para 5.2 - Our people, learning and development

Para 5.3 - IT strategy and information services

Para 5.4 - Congress House – managing our estates

Para 5.5 - Congress Centre – a valued venue

Para 5.6 - Congress 2022

Para 5.7 - Women’s Conference

Para 5.8 - LGBT+ Conference

Para 5.9 - Disabled Workers Conference

Para 5.10 - Black Workers Conference

Para 5.11 - Young Workers Conference

Para 5.12 - Trades Councils Conference

Para 5.13 - Trade Union Comms Awards

Para 5.14 - TUC Finances and Appendix 3

Para 5.15 - Development fund

Para 5.16 - Statement of accounts

Para 5.17 - Prospects and developments

Para 5.18 - TUC Library

Address by Eric Campos Banto, general secretary of CUT Chile

Motion 78 - Risks e-newsletter

Para 2.10 - Health and safety

Motion 79 - Supporting the Ron Todd Foundation as a movement

End of session


Tuesday 12 September

Music: Esme Bridie

09:30–12:45

Industrial action case study: PCS, Hinduja Global

SECTION 4: WINNING A BETTER FUTURE FOR WORKING PEOPLE

Motion 62 - Education: ensuring all political parties put students and staff first for the 2024 general election

Para 4.7 - Skills

Motion 63 - Childcare: delivering a just and prosperous society

Para 4.5 - Social care and childcare

Motion 64 - Standards in public life

Motion 65 - Renewing our fire and rescue service

Motion 66 - A royal commission into the criminal justice system

Motion 67 - Lives at risk – government failures on the Probation Service

Motion 68 - Remove CAFCASS from the Civil Service Pay Remit

Para 4.6 - Civil service and justice

Address by Angela Rayner, deputy leader of the Labour Party

Special feature: ARTF implementation

SECTION 3: BUILDING A STRONGER MORE DIVERSE MOVEMENT

Motion 37 - Equal conditions for female professional footballers

Motion 38 - Ending the hostile environment

Para 3.1 - Introduction

Para 3.2 - Black workers

Para 4.15 - Tackling the far right

Motion 39 - Research and guidance for trans young people

Motion 40 - Protect trans and non- binary rights

Motion 41 - Young workers say no to poverty pay!

Para 3.3 - LGBT+ workers

End of session


14.15 - 17.30

SECTION 4: WINNING A BETTER FUTURE FOR WORKING PEOPLE

Motion 42 - Technology in the workplace

Motion 43 - AI

Motion 44 - Artificial intelligence

Motion 45 - The impact of artificial intelligence on financial services

Para 4.8 - AI at work and rights

SECTION 2: THE ECONOMY AND THE COST-OF-LIVING CRISIS

Motion 19 - RPI – save the rate

Motion 20 - UK tax raising measures

Motion 21 - Fair Taxation

Para 2.5 - Trade

Para 2.7 - Pension

Motion 22 - Affordable housing for key workers

Motion 23 - Secure, affordable housing for all workers

Motion 30 - The Covid-19 public inquiry

Para 2.11 - Covid public enquiry

Address by Lynn Sudbury-Riley from Covid Bereaved Families

SECTION 4: WINNING A BETTER FUTURE FOR WORKING PEOPLE, CONTINUED

Motion 69 - BBC

Motion 70 - Future of the BBC

Motion 71 - Solidarity with Ukraine

Motion 72 - Solidarity with Ukraine

Motion 73 - Right to boycott

Para 4.9 - International

Para 4.10 - ILO

Para 4.11 - G7

Para 4.12 - Progressive change Para 4.13 TUC Aid

Para 4.14 - Regulating global value chains

End of session


Wednesday 13 September

Music: Birmingham Schools’ Azaad Dhol Ensemble

09:30–12:45

Industrial action case study

SECTION 2: THE ECOMONY AND THE COST-OF-LIVING CRISIS

Motion 07 - Time to value UK arts and heritage

Motion 08 - A national co-ordinated creative arts policy

Motion 09 - Ending the low pay/no pay culture in arts and creative industries

Motion 10 - Streaming and fair pay for writers

Address by Harriet Harman MP, sororal delegate from the Labour Party

Motion 24 - Social security

Motion 25 - A stronger safety net

Para 2.6 - Social security and sick pay

Address by Luc Triangle, general secretary of the ITUC

Any unfinished business

Emergency motions

GCR appendix 1: Attendance GCR appendix 2: Committee membership

GCR appendix 3: Accounts

GCR appendix 4: Disputes between unions

GCR appendix 5: TUC rules and standing orders

GCR appendix 6: TUC General Council statement and guidance on sexual harassment

Closing of Congress

Adopt General Council’s report

General Council retirements

Vote of thanks

Presentation of Gold Badge and Congress bell to president

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