Several hundred civil servants braved pouring rain to demonstrate in Belfast and Dnderry today against the delay in implementing an equal pay deal promised by Executive ministers last year.

A major reorganisation of the Social Security Office network in the North will not mean job losses, it was insisted today.

Over £25,000 (€29,665) was spent on bottled water at the Northern Ireland Office last year, it was revealed today.

More than 300 jobs are to go by April as part of Northern Ireland Water’s efficiency drive, the company confirmed tonight.

Up to 400 civilian posts within the PSNI will disappear over the next three years, a trade union claimed tonight.

Striking classroom assistants in the North have suspended their action in a bid to broker a settlement, it was announced this evening.

The North's Children's Commissioner today called on all sides involved in the classroom assistants' strike to put children first and quickly resolve the dispute.

Over a hundred disgruntled classroom assistants in the North have picketed Stormont as part of their strike for better pay and conditions.

Classroom assistants in the North have begun a fresh strike this morning as part of a row over pay and other issues.

Schools across Northern Ireland face serious disruption tomorrow after eleventh hours talks failed to avert a one day strike by thousands of classroom assistants.

Schoolchildren across the North face disruption after classroom assistants said they had opened a ballot for a strike when the new term begins next month.

Pregnant women are being forced out of their jobs as part of the worst alleged gender discrimination in the North, it was claimed today.

The British government was warned today it faced widespread industrial action by public servants in Northern Ireland in resistence to reform initiatives.

Civil servants are staging a protest in Belfast today to highlight what they claim is the scandal of low pay in the Northern Ireland Civil Service.

More than 20,000 Northern Ireland civil servants were today urged to vote for an all-out strike over pay.

The North's largest public service union has announced plans to ballot its members on all-out strike action in the new year.

More than 2,000 education staff in the North are taking part in a one-day strike over pay today.

Pickets will be placed on schools across Northern Ireland today as thousands of non-teaching staff in the North's education service stage a one-day strike.

Northern Ireland’s largest public service union is balloting more than 5,000 of its members employed in the education and library sector on strike action, it announced today.

A strike by up to 2,000 Water Service workers today could cause disruption to water supplies and a risk of environmental pollution in the North, the British government has warned.

A civil servant, who suffers from asthma, was forced to endure a “walk of shame” because of his poor attendance record, an industrial tribunal heard today.

Civil servants in Northern Ireland have taken a “take it or leave it” pay offer from the British government in defiance of their union leaders who wanted an all-out strike, it was announced today.

Striking civil servants in Northern Ireland were today made a final offer to end their pay row.

The British government has put in place measures to alleviate the backlog in MOT tests caused by the civil service strike in Northern Ireland, officials said today.

The civil service union NIPSA tonight suspended strike action in nine MOT Centres across the North closed since May.

Striking civil servants were preparing to step up industrial action in the North today.

Northern Ireland Minister Barry Gardiner today called on the Civil Service union to ballot its members on its latest pay offer.

Striking civil servants in Northern Ireland will continue their bitter pay dispute with the British government after turning down a fresh pay offer, their union said today.

The British government today offered striking civil servants in Northern Ireland a fresh pay deal in a bid to end their bitter 34-week dispute.

Industrial action by civil servants in Northern Ireland is to continue after intervention today by the North's Secretary of State Paul Murphy failed to resolve the long running dispute.

Union chiefs tonight vowed to fight any move by Gordon Brown to axe a quarter of administrative jobs in Northern Ireland’s civil service.

More than 100 civil servants in the North staged a second unofficial walk-out today in protest at the suspension of colleagues for refusing to carry out the work of people on strike.

Civil service strike action in Northern Ireland is causing massive disruption to driving and MOT tests, it was confirmed today.

Striking civil servants will attempt to hit the payment of grants and subsidies to Northern Ireland’s thousands of farmers when they extend industrial action next week, it was announced today.

Striking civil servants will attempt to hit the payment of grants and subsidies to Northern Ireland’s thousands of farmers when they extend industrial action next week, it was announced today.

Striking Northern Ireland civil servants were condemned by the British government tonight for targeting pay and pensions for teachers and retired teachers.

Angry trade unionists stormed out in protest as Northern Ireland Office Minister John Spellar prepared to address a major conference in Derry today.

More than 60 staff from the Child Support Agency in Belfast were going on strike today as part of demands by civil servants for more pay.

A pay dispute which has plunged Northern Ireland’s civil service into disarray intensified tonight after Jobcentre staff were suspended without pay.

Home repair workers in north Belfast have walked out after loyalist paramilitary threats to staff, it was revealed today.

A public service union tonight announced an intensification of its civil service strike action in Northern Ireland in a dispute over pay.

Up to 20,000 civil servants across Northern Ireland were today staging another one-day strike as part of a continuing pay dispute.

Up to 20,000 civil servants in Northern Ireland are set to strike today.

A meeting is taking place in Omagh in Co Tyrone between management and workers at a social security office where Catholic contractors were threatened yesterday by loyalists.