Mediators will make a final push to resolve the long-running dispute at Green Isle Foods this evening.

ELECTRICIANS were last night considering a return to widespread strike action after one of the main electrical contractor bodies voted to reject a Labour Court recommendation for 4.9% pay increases in the industry.

ELECTRICAL contractors employing more than 5,000 of the country’s electricians have accepted a Labour Court recommendation which calls for almost 5% pay increases across the industry.

EMPLOYERS and unions involved in the electricians’ strike have been invited to the Labour Court this morning to try and resolve the nationwide dispute.

LESS than 72 hours after its mediation failed to resolve the pay dispute between electricians and their employers, the Government has ordered the Labour Relations Commission (LRC) to intervene for a third time.

The executive of the country's largest public sector union will meet today to discuss next week's planned one-day national strike after members narrowly failed to approve it.

THE Labour Court began hearing an application by a group of electrical contractors for the abolition of pay increases due to 10,000 electricians due under a registered employment agreement (REA).

AS THE Government tries to entice trade unions back into pay talks, the country’s biggest craft union has instructed its members to start seeking the biggest pay claim to date.

THE Health Service Executive’s so-called light bulb dispute with craft workers in the south of the country appeared over last night after the workers’ union ordered its members back to work.