HSE support workers at University Hospital Waterford are to be balloted for industrial action.

Staff at Virgin Media Ireland could go on strike after voting in favour of industrial action over job cuts.

School secretaries will strike for a day next year in an escalation of a row over pay.

The action is expected to cause significant disruption to the administration of the schools' sector without affecting students or parents.

They will hold a work stoppage when schools open their gates this morning, in anger over a two-tier low-pay system.

Almost 7,700 days were lost to industrial disputes in the second quarter of this year.

A rental company has been ordered to pay €61,100 to a General Manager after she found herself to be effectively demoted to general operative on returning from maternity leave.

Paramedics who are members of the Psychiatric Nurses' Association will protest at Leinster House later, demanding the HSE recognise their union.

A series of protests are taking place across Ireland today in support of striking ambulance workers.

Talks are to resume on Monday to try to prevent 10,000 health workers going on strike.

The major sponsor of a Premier League football club is set to be asked to "walk away" from the club over the sacking of three members of its ground staff.

Members of the Psychiatric Nurses Association have voted in favour of industrial action, in response to the recruitment and retention crisis in the health service.

The SIPTU union is seeking an urgent meeting with Aer Lingus management over reports increased surveillance is being carried out on staff.

Luas drivers could take industrial action in a row over meal breaks.

Paramedics are to ramp up industrial action next week over what they claim is the continued refusal by the HSE to engage in negotiations to recognise or deal with their union.

Luas drivers are threatening strike action over the issue of packed lunches.

Talks resume this morning between Ryanair management and the Irish Airline Pilots Association.

Talks aimed at the resolving the Ryanair dispute begin this morning.

Talks are due to take place today in a bid to avert industrial action by Cork city’s firefighters later this month.

The transport minister says he won't intervene in the Bus Éireann dispute, because it would undermine the legacy of Seán Lemass.

Contingency plans are being prepared in case ongoing talks fail to reach a deal to prevent next week's unprecedented Garda strike.

IF there was any doubt about the consequences of the Government making concessions to gardaí and some teachers — barely 10% of public employees — outside the Lansdowne Road agreement, there can be none after yesterday’s contribution from the Impact trade union. 

SIPTU members working in the National Ambulance Service centre in Dublin have voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action in a dispute over staffing levels.

THERE are scores of reasons for members of the 32nd Dáil to stop faffing about and form a government. The need to get back to a fair, orderly, and sustainable process of income recovery is one .

Other public transport sector workers now voicing disaffection and clamouring for more, writes Stephen Rogers

OVER the last three years, businesses have put 125,000 people back to work; in jobs that have provided families with new opportunities, and entire communities with a fresh sense of value and purpose.

A new industrial relations system comes into effect today.

Nurses at Dublin's Beaumont Hospital have served notice of industrial action, due to what they say are unsafe conditions in the Emergency Department.

The Tánaiste said she supports boosting the industrial relations machinery of the state in a bid to prevent strikes happening.

Marks & Spencer is facing the potential of strike action by 2,000 staff in the run-up to Christmas over its plans to close down the defined benefit pension scheme.

ESB workers will begin potentially disruptive industrial action from Dec 16 if no agreement is reached with management over how to resolve the €1.6bn deficit in the company’s pension scheme.

Public Expenditure Minister Brendan Howlin has signalled it will be “very difficult” to get a deal over the line with all unions on the public pay bill by Monday.

Passengers face uncertainty over the potential levels of disruption from a national bus strike that could begin tomorrow morning.