THE team overseeing the Croke Park pay and reform deal has said a “one-size-fits-all approach” will not work and each public service sector will have to decide how best to implement the terms.

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AIR traffic controllers and the Irish Aviation Authority meet in the Labour Court this morning to see if they can reach a deal which would avert further strike action at the country’s three main airports.

THE loss of more than 1,000 Aer Lingus jobs now appears unavoidable after last-gasp talks between management and pilots failed to create an agreement.

AER LINGUS last night confirmed it is to press ahead with €97 million in cost-saving measures with the loss of almost 900 jobs, 200 more than it had originally intended.

AER LINGUS and its unions were last night engaged in last-ditch talks at the Labour Relations Commission to avoid close to 900 job losses.

SIPTU has accused the Government of using spin to muddy the atmosphere of public sector demands.

THE Government is preparing to renegotiate last year’s controversial national wage deal.

AER LINGUS management has warned staff unions that, unless they agree to a €97 million cost-saving package involving 676 job losses by the end of the month, it will be forced to shrink the airline and make hundreds more redundant.

AER LINGUS and its pilots will appear before an Oireachtas transport committee in the morning following a claim by the pilots that the company planned to get rid of workers and rehire them on inferior terms and conditions.

Aer Lingus tonight revealed it will enter talks with unions and industrial trouble-shooters over its €97m cost cutting plan.

SIPTU has sought permission from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions for an all-out picket of Coca-Cola’s operations across the country over the ongoing seven-week dispute between the company and former workers.

THE three-week long dispute between Coca-Cola and a large section of its distribution staff should start to be resolved today at a hearing of the Labour Court.

The electricians’ strike is taking its toll on the already fragile economy, Brian Cowen warned today.

THE Labour Relations Commission has 48 hours to avert indefinite strike action by 10,500 electricians which could grind all the country’s major construction projects to a halt from Monday.

The Labour Relations Commission has convened talks for tomorrow in an attempt to resolve a dispute over pay in the electrical contracting sector.

The National Implementation Body wants electrical and engineering unions to re-engage with employers groups in a bid to avert this week's planned strike action.

Unions and management at the Lufthansa Technik plant in Co Dublin are due to meet this morning amid fresh fears for the future of 465 jobs.

TÁNAISTE Mary Coughlan has expressed fears for the future of 465 jobs at the Lufthansa Technik Airmotive plant in Rathcoole, Co Dublin.

Proposals which could end a dispute and secure more than 450 jobs under threat at an aircraft maintenance company outside Dublin are to be put to the workforce on Monday.

Both sides in the dispute at Lufthansa Technik in Dublin are to meet for talks today.

MORE than 200 jobs were axed in north Kerry last night in what is being termed as a catastrophe for the region's workforce on a par with the Limerick pull-out by computer giant Dell.

Negotiators were optimistic this evening that strike action at Aer Lingus next week could be averted.

The Labour Relations Commission is due to report to the National Implementation Body (NIB) today on the level of progress made in talks between SIPTU and Aer Lingus at the weekend.

TALKS aimed at averting the planned strike in Aer Lingus, due to take effect before the end of this month, will recommence today as SIPTU meets with the Labour Relations Commission.

Today’s talks at the Labour Relations Commission (LRC) aimed at averting strike action at Aer Lingus have been adjourned.

Talks aimed at averting industrial action at Aer Lingus are due to resume at the Labour Relations Commission today.

Crisis talks will be held between Aer Lingus and SIPTU trade union today in a bid to advert strike action that could affect thousands of Christmas passengers.

SIPTU has until Monday to convince Aer Lingus that its members can contribute their share of €50 million in cutbacks without the airline outsourcing or making redundant 1,300 of the ground crew it represents.

The Government industrial trouble-shooter tonight urged Aer Lingus and trade union Siptu to return to talks.

THE Government has given no indication when its dispute mediation body will adjudicate on the battle between Aer Lingus and its staff which threatens to ground thousands of passengers this Christmas.

Trade union Siptu tonight called on Aer Lingus to implement cost-cutting measures without outsourcing 1,300 jobs.

Efforts to avoid industrial action at Aer Lingus are to get underway at Government Buildings this lunchtime.

AER LINGUS and its staff unions will today enter last-ditch talks aimed at averting strike action that would see thousands of passengers grounded over the Christmas period.

The National Implementation Body, the main troubleshooting mechanism under social partnership, has intervened in the dispute at Aer Lingus.

Aer Lingus passengers could face travel chaos later this month after Siptu today served two weeks strike notice on the airline over its cost-cutting plans.

The Irish Nurses Organisation has said it intends to refer its dispute over working hours to the National Implementation Body (NIB) - the state's top industrial relations trouble-shooting body.

IN A sign of their growing impatience, the Irish Nurses Organisation has threatened industrial action over the non-implementation of new rosters for a shorter working week.

NURSES at Cavan General Hospital are staging a lunchtime protest today to express their anger at the failure by management to implement the shorter working week.

THE National Implementation Body will today try to resolve the dispute between the Department of Social and Family Affairs and its staff before workers begin all-out strike action.

A threat of industrial action hangs over RTÉ tonight after hundreds of workers backed calls for a ballot in a row over pension schemes.

YESTERDAY’S deadline for final agreement on the e20 million cost-savings at Aer Lingus failed to be met as the airline engaged in yet more talks with worker representatives.

THE prospect of uncollected rubbish bins and filthy streets in Waterford has receded following the intervention of the National Implementation Body between the city council and its outdoor staff.

Tens of thousands of nurses may cripple the health service through mass resignations unless they are given a pay rise, it emerged today.