London Underground drivers will not be joining two fresh strikes later this month over the night Tube dispute.

Irish passengers travelling home for Christmas from London and Manchester next week could be facing travel chaos.

Tube services in London were hit today by a “solidly supported” strike over ticket office closures.

London Underground workers have walked out on a 48-hour strike in a long-running row over Tube ticket office closures which will cause travel chaos in the capital.

A planned 48-hour strike by London Underground workers in a row over ticket office closures has been called off after a last-minute deal was agreed.

A British teenager reportedly sacked from fast-food chain McDonalds for sprinkling too much chocolate on a McFlurry has won a compensation claim.

The union representing fuel tanker drivers in Britain today ruled out the threat of strikes over Easter and said it wanted to focus on peace talks.

British workers at food giant Heinz are to stage a 24-hour strike tomorrow after rejecting a revised pay offer.

THE new year will see a “whole new ball game” for the Croke Park agreement due to the worsening economic crisis, Labour Relations Commission chief executive Kieran Mulvey told an Oireachtas Committee yesterday.

Talks aimed at averting fresh strikes by London Underground workers were held today and are set to continue next week.

London Underground services were crippled today because of a strike by workers in protest at job cuts, causing misery for commuters and other travellers.

British Airways cabin crew are to vote on a proposed deal aimed at ending their long-running dispute, it was revealed today.

Talks aimed at resolving a pay row between workers and soft drinks giant Coca-Cola ended without agreement today.

Crucial talks will be held today aimed at averting the threat of strikes by airport workers which could cause travel chaos for holidaymakers before the end of the school break.

An attempt to avert strike action at six UK airports will begin on Monday.

THE travel plans of thousands of Irish air passengers intending to fly to Britain over the coming weeks have been thrown into doubt as workers threaten to close down the airports there through strikes.

Management and unions locked in a bitter airport workers’ pay dispute will meet at conciliation service Acas on Monday in a bid to stop a strike which could wreck travel plans for millions.

Talks aimed at resolving the long-running British Airways cabin crew dispute have ended without agreement, it was announced today.

Fresh talks aimed at resolving the bitter British Airways cabin crew dispute will be held in the next few days after new proposals were put forward by the conciliation service Acas.

New proposals to end the dispute between British Airways and the Unite union were put forward by the arbitration service Acas today.

Strike pay was increased today to British Airways cabin crew as they launched their latest wave of five-day walkouts in their bitter row with the airline.

The latest wave of strikes by British Airways cabin crew will end today, with further action set to be launched at the weekend in the increasingly bitter row.

British Airways is holding new talks with the union representing cabin crew today.

Talks aimed at ending the bitter British Airways dispute will resume today as a strike by cabin crew enters its fifth day.

Talks aimed at ending the bitter British Airways dispute will resume tomorrow as a strike by cabin crew enters its fifth day.

Picket lines were mounted at Heathrow Airport today as British Airways cabin crew launched the first of a wave of strikes which threatens to disrupt flights for weeks.

British Airways cabin crew staff went on strike today after hopes of a last-ditch deal collapsed.

British Airways cabin crew will go ahead with a wave of strikes from tomorrow after hopes of a last-ditch deal collapsed.

A union leader tonight offered to suspend strikes by British Airways cabin crew if the airline gave back travel concessions, in a last-gasp attempt to halt the action.

Talks aimed at averting a series of strikes by British Airways cabin crew ended in disarray tonight after scores of demonstrators stormed the building where the meeting was being held.

The union representing British Airways cabin crew was today preparing to appeal against an injunction which halted strike action planned by thousands of its members in a bitter row over jobs, pay and staffing levels.

Hopes of a last-ditch deal to avert the first of a series of strikes by British Airways cabin crew plunged today when the airline’s chief executive said he did not expect any progress to be made during peace talks.

British Airways is to take legal action in a bid to prevent a wave of strikes by its cabin crew, it was announced tonight.

Thousands of postal workers in the UK started a second day of strikes today, with a fresh wave of action set to be held next week in an escalation of the bitter Royal Mail dispute.

National strikes by British postal workers will go ahead tomorrow and Friday after hopes of reaching a last minute deal collapsed.

The union representing British Airways cabin crew registered a “failure to agree” after lengthy talks failed to break a deadlocked row over cost cutting plans.

Fresh moves to resolve a row over plans by British Airways to axe thousands of jobs, freeze pay and make other savings will be made tomorrow as a union warned that conflict was “looming”.

British Airways has asked the conciliation service Acas to help it reach a deal with unions over jobs cuts and a pay freeze in a bid to avoid a damaging strike.

A deadlocked row over job cuts and pay at British Airways could be resolved through arbitration in a move to head off the threat of industrial action, it was revealed today.

STAFF at AIB have voted overwhelmingly to reject a management request for a two-year pay freeze and changes to the pension schemes.

Workers who operate luggage scanning equipment at Stansted Airport will go on a 24-hour strike today because of a deadlocked row over pay, union leaders in the UK said.

Staff at Stansted Airport will strike on next Monday over a pay dispute, it was confirmed.

Planned strikes by British airport workers that would have caused travel misery over the UK bank holiday period were called off early today.

Distribution workers at four UK sites run by retail giant Argos will stage a 24-hour strike tomorrow in a row over pay.