The Post Office has reported an increased profit of £107m despite a decline in its revenue.

Telecoms giant BT has offered a near three year pay deal to thousands of its staff, saying it would provide wage stability until early 2017.

Postal workers yesterday moved to quell fears over the delivery of Christmas mail after it emerged that postal staff were at loggerheads with a contractor at the four national mail centres over staff changes.

The UK government said it will sell a majority stake in 360-year-old Royal Mail via an initial public offering by the end of March.

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has said the "tectonic plates" of Europe have shifted.

Vodafone said today that it is disappointed that some members of the Communication Workers Union have voted for industrial action.

Virgin Media was today accused of being "unbelievably insensitive" for sending a thank you letter and a free book to staff facing redundancy in the New Year.

One of Cavan's largest employers is to shed 20 jobs, it was announced today.

IT giant Siemens has agreed to meet a group of workers at one of its Cork facilities to discuss redundancy payments after losing a contract with an English firm.

British workers at mobile phone giant O2 have voted overwhelmingly to accept a two-year pay deal worth 5.25%, it was announced today.

Leaders of Britain’s biggest trade union today confirmed their support for former climate change secretary Ed Miliband in his bid to become Labour’s next leader, giving his campaign a big boost.

Former Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband has won the support of a second trade union in a week in his bid to become the next leader of the Labour Party.

The threat of a strike by BT workers in Britain was averted today when the telecoms giant reached a deal with union leaders for an “unprecedented” three-year pay rise worth more than 9%.

BT workers in the UK are starting to vote today on whether or not to take strike action in a row over pay.

Telecoms giant BT has made a new pay offer to thousands of its workers in a bid to avert industrial action, it was revealed today.

BT workers will vote on industrial action if the UK telecoms giant does not improve a pay offer by June 4, union leaders decided today.

British telecoms giant BT will face the threat of industrial action today after it publishes its annual report, which is expected to show increased bonuses for top staff.

The union which represents workers in the postal, communications, call centre and technology sector begins its biennial conference later today.

BANK of Ireland, cross-border shoppers and the IDA were the winners in yesterday’s pre-election British budget.

BT shares fell sharply today after the telecoms group revealed the “substantial concerns” of the UK pensions watchdog over a deal to plug its record £9bn (€10.2bn) pension scheme black hole.

Talks to try to break the deadlocked postal dispute in the UK are expected to resume today as the Royal Mail faces legal action over the recruitment of 30,000 agency staff during the strike.

Further negotiations will be needed next week to resolve the “high-pressure dispute” between Royal Mail and postal workers, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said today.

Britain's mail dispute remained deadlocked tonight as a fresh wave of strikes caused more disruption to the post – and there was a further threat of longer walkouts next month.

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.

Thousands of postal workers manned picket lines across Britain today at the start of national strikes as a war of words erupted over the increasingly bitter mail dispute.

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

A walkout by British postal staff in the capital was starting today amid the spectre of a much more crippling national strike.

UP to 1,000 jobs could be lost at An Post if the downturn in commercial business caused by the recession does not improve, a senior trade union official has warned.

Mobile phone giants Orange and T-Mobile today revealed plans to join forces in a tie-up which will create a new market leader in the UK.

EIRCOM Holdings has rejected a takeover offer it received for the group from Singapore Technologies Telemedia on the grounds that the bid is inadequate.

EIRCOM’S plans to axe 1,200 jobs by mid-2011, while not officially confirmed until yesterday, had been widely expected since March.

The British government will lose hundreds of millions of pounds on its plan to part-privatise the Royal Mail because of the timing of its controversial proposals, a new report claimed today.

A committee has been established to oppose the extradition of veteran socialist and republican Sean Garland to the United States.

EIRCOM’S 7,000 staff are bracing themselves for significant pay cuts and redundancies in their number as the company carries out a “root and branch” review of its cost base.

VODAFONE yesterday confirmed it is to make 150 staff redundant due to increased competition in the industry.

Agency staff working for telecoms giant BT have not received a pay rise for four years, the industry’s main union claimed today.

Former building societies Abbey and Alliance & Leicester are to be merged under a £1.26bn (€1.5bn) deal announced today.

Japanese manufacturing firm Fujitsu is to cut 120 jobs from one of its UK centres and transfer work abroad, workers were told today.

SOME of the country’s most expensive addresses are experiencing the slowest mail deliveries because of a dispute involving postal staff.

Last minute negotiations were being held tonight between European Government ministers and officials in a bid to head off a row over new employment rights for temporary and agency workers.

UK postal workers will start voting later this week on whether to accept a deal aimed at ending their long-running dispute over pay, jobs and working conditions, it was announced tonight.

Postal workers’ leaders today ratified a deal aimed at ending the bitter mail dispute, which has disrupted deliveries across the UK since the summer.

Union leaders today suspended a series of planned strikes by postal workers as they continued to consider a proposed deal aimed at resolving the bitter mail dispute.

The union which represents postal workers will meet today to discuss wildcat strikes which have added to the disruption caused by last week’s national walkout.