Over the past few weeks, Italy has been back at the heart of events.

A TRADE union of second and third level teachers’ voted for immediate industrial action in the event of further cuts to teachers’ pay and conditions.

Mandate Trade Union members in the Dublin Airport Authority have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a €40m cost reduction programme, it was announced today.

Workers are set to picket Dublin's Spawell pub and nightclub from Tuesday after the company announced it was to close with the loss of 32 jobs.

A TRADE union has claimed that huge savings would arise if the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food got its own trained staff to undertake factory meat inspections currently done by external inspectors.

TRADE UNION chiefs will hold talks today with a US-based investment group lining up a potential rescue offer for troubled Waterford Crystal.

THE Irish Congress of Trade Unions has issued 10 recommendations to the Government on how to “reverse or soften” the impact of the recent budget cutbacks.

ISME has warned that the jobs market is "in crisis" and "the Government is burying its head in the sand", after a CSO report revealed unemployment here has risen more than 9,000 over the past month to 6%.

Trade union, Mandate, has called on the Minister for Finance, Brian Cowen, to make all tax credits refundable so that workers who are outside the tax net can avail of the benefits.

The Government has been called on to come up with new ideas to get people to invest in a pension.

Minister Cowen has done little to encourage workers to pay into pensions, writes David Clerkin.

Trade Union SIPTU has accepted the Labour Court recommendation to resolve the dispute at Brinks Allied.

British trade union demands for new workers’ rights, equal pay and greater legal protection for pensions have been given huge support by Labour party activists, according to a new report today.

Commuters faced the prospect of crippling bus and rail stoppages tonight after one of the largest public transport unions voted to begin strike action

A TRADE union movement wants all workers in Waterford city to lend their support to almost 140 contract cleaners who were laid off on Monday in a festering pay dispute with their employer.

Trade Union leaders are rejecting claims public opinion at home and in the United States is shifting towards support for a war with Iraq.

The head of Ryanair explained today how his company was ‘‘flying its way’’ out of the air industry crisis generated by the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States.