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Thu, 21 Dec, 2017
Ryanair management will hold their first-ever talks with the pilots' union tomorrow.
Mon, 18 Dec, 2017
IMPACT have suspended a planned one-day strike of Ryanair pilots next Wednesday.
Sun, 17 Dec, 2017
79 out of 82 of Ryanair's direct employee pilots based in Dublin have voted for industrial action in a row over collective bargaining and negotiating rights.
Mon, 11 Dec, 2017
A new 'super union' is to be created representing more than 80,000 public service workers.
Tue, 21 Nov, 2017
A planned new 80,000 member union is set to become the largest representative of staff in the public sector.
Special Needs Assistants have voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action.
Sat, 14 Oct, 2017
Workers who vote to reject the widely accepted new public sector pay deal may be frozen out of pay increases and other benefits and face financial penalties, Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has warned.
Tue, 19 Sep, 2017
The IMPACT trade union says we need better early intervention for children with special needs.
Fri, 18 Aug, 2017
One of the country's largest public sector unions is backing the Lansdowne Road 2 pay deal.
Mon, 17 Jul, 2017
The chances of the new public service pay deal being passed by the trade union movement has been given a boost after the Siptu executive decided to recommend acceptance to its members.
Fri, 23 Jun, 2017
One of the country’s largest trade unions has voiced fears over the ongoing public sector pay talks, claiming that government plans would reduce incomes, rather than restore them.
Mon, 29 May, 2017
Dublin City Council has asked the Workplace Relations Commission to intervene in the Dublin Fire Brigade dispute.
Tue, 07 Mar, 2017
Public service trade unions have welcomed the €38.33 fortnightly “down payment” for their members as a result of the Government’s decision to bring forward pay increases from April, but have warned that much more will be expected in a new deal later this year.
Wed, 18 Jan, 2017
Public-sector employees are being urged to work together to restore their pay.
Sun, 23 Oct, 2016
The Union of Students Ireland (USI) will hold a national day of protest today to put pressure on the Government to find a long-term, publicly financed solution to third-level education funding.
Wed, 19 Oct, 2016
IMPACT and Siptu trade unions, representing residential care staff at the Oberstown campus, will attend a meeting with management today.
Mon, 05 Sep, 2016
150 staff members at the State's only youth detention centre will walk off the job today.
Mon, 29 Aug, 2016
Several unions look set to test the mettle of the minority Government on pay issues, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.
Mon, 30 May, 2016
Hundreds took to the streets of Dublin city earlier today to call for urgent action on the homeless crisis.
Sat, 28 May, 2016
Staff at Childminding Ireland are set to begin indefinite strike action from next month unless management withdraws compulsory redundancy notices, according to trade union representatives.
Tue, 24 May, 2016
The manager of Oberstown Children Detention Campus has said riot gear for staff is not the answer to issues at the facility as workers veer towards possible industrial action.
Tue, 17 May, 2016
The Department of Social Protection has strongly defended the JobBridge scheme amid calls for it to be scrapped.
Tue, 26 Apr, 2016
The number of people dropping out of the Government’s JobBridge national internship programme early each year is almost as high as those who are completing the scheme, figures show.
Mon, 25 Apr, 2016
Thu, 31 Mar, 2016
ÉAMONN CEANNT is, in many ways, the ‘unknown’ man among the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising, and the signatories to the proclamation of the Irish Republic.
Mon, 18 Jan, 2016
Wed, 11 Nov, 2015
Community and voluntary sector organisations supporting some of the most disadvantaged in society are facing a difficulty in maintaining services without an immediate improvement in funding mechanisms.
Wed, 23 Sep, 2015
The Public Services Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions has voted to approve the Lansdowne Road Agreement.
Wed, 16 Sep, 2015
A select group of local authority workers are set to lose the ‘rain’ allowance they have been receiving for lifting bins in wet weather.
Sun, 06 Sep, 2015
The Lansdowne Road agreement on public service pay has been given another boost after a third trade union voted to accept the contents of the deal.
Fri, 24 Jul, 2015
A possible strike by special needs assistants (SNAs) has been averted by new rules giving those employed part-time a better chance of extra hours in schools.
Sat, 20 Jun, 2015
Impact, the largest trade union representative of staff at Aer Lingus, has written to Transport Minister Paschal Donohoe warning that assurances about job security in the event of the airline being sold are “worthless”.
Tue, 26 May, 2015
Upcoming talks on pay restoration in the public service must recognise the productivity given by staff and must not come at the expense of further changes to terms and conditions of employment, a senior trade union figure insisted.
Thu, 07 May, 2015
Teachers have been head-butted, kicked, punched, spat at, and suffered broken bones as attacks in the classroom become more frequent and violent.
Thu, 09 Apr, 2015
More than 800 special needs assistants (SNAs) were paid at least five days late last week because of another payroll problem at the Department of Education.
Wed, 25 Feb, 2015
Unions representing workers at Aer Lingus are due to brief their shop stewards at the airline today and tomorrow to further clarify their stance on the proposed takeover of the airline by aviation group IAG.
Tue, 24 Feb, 2015
A senior trade union official says IAG will have to "do a lot" to convince members to back their bid for Aer Lingus.
Mon, 23 Feb, 2015
One in four Aer Lingus workers could lose their jobs if the airline is taken over by IAG, unions have claimed.
Fri, 30 Jan, 2015
Up to 1,200 jobs could be lost at Aer Lingus if the airline is sold to IAG, according to the IMPACT trade union.
Thu, 29 Jan, 2015
We are, it seems, on the very cusp of indulging in the kind of self-destructive behaviour and delusion that helped write the script — partially at least — for our economic collapse.
Tue, 02 Dec, 2014
A group of council workers have been awarded an "eating on site allowance" after winning a battle with Dublin City Council.
Fri, 26 Sep, 2014
Staff have been told they must hand in receipts for clothing destroyed in a hospital flood — a year after the incident.
Sat, 30 Aug, 2014
Members of the IMPACT trade union in the Limerick group of hospitals will from today refuse to co-operate with their chief operations manager in a row over his salary.
Tue, 22 Jul, 2014
Six hundred workers in South Dublin County Council are downing tools today in a row over pay cuts.
Tue, 24 Jun, 2014
Management and the IMPACT trade union have accepted Labour Court recommendations - to resolve the dispute.
Thu, 12 Jun, 2014
Two one-day strikes are planned by South Dublin County Council workers later this month.
The Labour Court will issue recommendations today aimed at resolving the dispute over rosters at Aer Lingus.
Strike action by cabin crew at Aer Lingus, which was due to take place next Monday and Tuesday, has been deferred.
Wed, 11 Jun, 2014
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