Northern Ireland Trade Union & Social Centre T/A Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre– (BURC) is part of Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) in Northern Ireland.

ICTU is part of the largest civil society organisation in Ireland, representing and campaigning on behalf of 832,000 working people. There are currently 55 unions affiliated to Congress, north and south of the border.  A CBPES Adviser is embedded in the Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre and provides pre employability language and placement programmes, advice on living and working conditions and redundancy. ICTU Northern Ireland is a member of the CBPES Steering Committee.