Herb Hribar is the latest in a long line of CEOs at Eircom, writes Kyran Fitzgerald. And as the company emerges from examinership and financial restructuring, he is seeking to get the former semi-State company back on its feet

ENTERPRISE Minister Richard Bruton has been warned that his proposals to reform wage-setting mechanisms could cause poverty for hundreds of thousands of low-paid workers.

Trade unionists and green campaigners in the UK joined forces today in a bid to tackle climate change.

AN POST is on course to break its promise to the public to deliver 80% of all mail the next day, figures have shown.

POSTAL workers are committed to restoring An Post’s next-day delivery rates to their position among Europe’s best, union leaders said last night.

The two sides in Britain's bitter postal dispute appear to have reached an agreement.

Cherie Blair was plunged into fresh controversy today after Downing Street was forced to deny new claims she had dismissed Gordon Brown’s party conference speech as “rubbish”.

Striking postal workers in Northern Ireland were meeting today to decide on an offer from Royal Mail and whether to call off their two-week wildcat action.

Royal Mail today vowed to “fight for every letter” following the New Year’s Day postal revolution in which it will lose its 350-year monopoly on deliveries.

Management and unions at An Post are to be briefed tonight by Government trouble-shooters on the outcome of an independent assessment of the company’s controversial cost cutting plan.

British union leaders today warned constant speculation about further job cuts at the Royal Mail was “extremely unsettling” for postal workers.

Managers stood in for post office workers in the UK today as thousands of staff staged a Christmas Eve strike in a row over opening hours.

Postal staff are expected to return to work tonight after both sides involved in a two-week dispute agreed to enter into talks.

A breakthrough in the postal dispute over cost-cutting measures could finally be reached this evening, it has emerged.

WITH chaos looming in the postal service, the troubles besetting An Post are symptomatic of a malaise in a raft of ailing State companies.

MAIL services are likely to be hit if the country’s biggest postal union decides today to act on its mandate and call a national strike.

AN POST last night urged the Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) to return to the negotiating table 48 hours before notice of industrial action by postal staff is due to expire.

THE national pay deal looks set to be accepted after the biggest union in the country yesterday threw its weight behind the partnership agreement.