Anti-Irish Water campaigners have accused Environment Minister Alan Kelly of morphing into ex-minister Phil Hogan by increasingly “threatening” people who don’t pay their bill.

Industrial stoppages could be just days away at Bord Na Móna, with staff due to begin a ballot for action today.

Water charge protests "are a reflection of the level of anger over growing inequality in Ireland", according to the Technical Engineering and Electrical Union.

The article by Denise Charlton, chief executive of the Immigrant Council of Ireland, (Irish Examiner, June 16) is a welcome reminder of the Government’s failure to act on the recommendation of the Oireachtas Justice Committee to introduce legislation targeting the buyers of sex and those forcing women into prostitution as a matter of urgency.

Members of the Technical Engineering and Electrical Union (TEEU) at Bausch & Lomb in Waterford have voted to accept a cost saving plan put forward by management.

Despite a fellow driver union withdrawing from talks on cost savings at Iarnród Éireann over the weekend, Siptu has decided to ballot its members on the proposals which emerged from last week’s engagement.

All-out strike action by 6,500 electricians on February 24 could cause as much disruption to major infrastructural projects and manufacturing enterprises as similar action did in 2009.

All-out strike action by 6,500 electricians could cause serious disruption to major infrastructural projects and manufacturing within a matter of weeks.

A union representing electricians has announced its ballotting its 6,500 members for strike action.

The TEEU has described the student service charges on apprentices as "unfair and unaffordable".

An aircraft maintenance company is to close one of its engine repair plants in Co Dublin with the loss of more than 400 jobs.

Union leaders at energy giant ESB are still threatening strike action despite crunch talks with management to resolve a bitter dispute.

It is not too often that the Supreme Court declares something to be unconstitutional, but when it does it is usually something that will have a wide ranging affect for a large number of people.

The Irish National Teachers' Organisation and the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation have rejected the possible extension to the Croke Park agreement.

The Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said the Government will reflect on the decisions of unions on the proposed Croke Park II Agreement.

Top-ranking civil servants have rejected the proposed Croke Park II round of pay cuts.

Public Expenditure and Reform Minister Brendan Howlin has ruled out a renegotiation of Croke Park II in the event that it is rejected by public service unions next Wednesday.

The Department of Social Protection has the highest level of sick leave of all government departments at 13.5 sick days per employee last year, new figures have revealed.

The Government faces having to sell a yes vote on the EU fiscal treaty without trade union support after two more unions representing 100,000 workers recommended members vote no in the May 31 referendum.

A third major trade union has come out against the European fiscal compact and will urge its 40,000 members to vote No in the referendum.

Bord Gáis is facing industrial action up to and including strikes by its entire workforce over the company’s decision to cut overtime and allowances without agreement.

A top law firm has launched an investigation into a bogus memo that claims to have come from the company advising the public on paying the household charge.

Thirty-two former workers staging a sit-in at the Vita-Cortex plant in County Cork are waiting to hear if their former employers will meet with them at the Labour Relations Commission to discuss redundancy terms.

DIVISIONS between the unions representing workers at the ESB have deepened after the TEEU described talk of balloting members for strike action as a “knee-jerk reaction”.

A RECEIVER will be appointed today to Waterford firm Ellickson Engineering, which ceased trading last week.

THE future of up to 80 staff at Ellickson Engineering Plants in Waterford and Dublin are set to be determined at a meeting with company bosses yesterday.

CONSTRUCTION unions have voted to accept a recommendation by the Labour Court that the minimum wage in the industry be dropped by 7.5%.

A union today called workers to launch a campaign of civil disobedience in protest at the Government’s national recovery plan.

The Technical Engineering and Electrical Union (TEEU) has passed a motion calling for a campaign of civil disobedience.

IN spite of the controversy in a number of industry sectors over the binding agreements which set pay and conditions, negotiations are almost complete on the introduction of a new agreement for 4,000 plumbers, fitters and welders.

THE country’s largest group of electrical employers has applied to withdraw from the legally-binding agreement which sets pay and conditions for 10,000 workers in the industry – sparking fears of crippling strikes.

The Technical Engineering and Electrical Union has today rejected a Labour Court recommendation for a 7.5% cut in construction industry pay rates.

Electricians at a Dublin hospital will stage a one day stoppage as a dispute over outsourcing work escalates, it emerged tonight.

Members of the TEEU union are downing tools at St James's Hospital in Dublin today in protest at management's decision to bring in outside contractors.

STRIKING lift mechanics are to mount rolling pickets outside shopping centres where British company Otis is contracted to maintain lifts and escalators.

ELECTRICAL employers have failed in their High Court challenge to the legally binding system which sets pay and conditions of hundreds of thousands of workers in numerous industries across the economy.

One of the country’s largest unions today said it would cooperate with the introduction of the Croke Park pay deal – despite its members voting against the pact.

The Croke Park deal on public sector pay and reform was effectively secured tonight after two of the country’s most powerful unions backed it.

The country’s nurses backed two teaching unions in rejecting the Croke Park pay deal today.

The dispute between Green Isle Foods in Co Kildare and the TEEU (Technical Engineering and Electrical Union) has been concluded through mediation, it was announced this morning.

A sacked Green Isle worker joined protesting colleagues on hunger strike tonight – despite being told his visa had been revoked and he must return home.

A rally is being held in Naas in Kildare this afternoon to support striking Green Isle Foods workers.

ELECTRICAL employers have warned that any follow up to last year’s strike over terms and conditions in the industry will only increase the level of unemployment among electricians.

A former All-Ireland footballer today went on hunger strike alongside a frozen food plant co-worker over management’s refusal to reinstate or compensate three sacked staff.