Crane operators have decided to hold off on taking further strike action in a row over pay.

English Language School teachers have said that they love their job but it is impossible to stay in the sector long term because of a lack of regulation.

The Unite trade union will ballot crane operators over the coming days to extend industrial action, which started yesterday, to additional sites.

The Construction Industry Federation reacted angrily to yesterday’s crane strike that halted two major construction sites in Dublin.

The Government has moved to distance itself from the escalating funding crisis within Bus Éireann, claiming it is a matter for the company and unions to resolve.

CityJet has said it envisages no disruption to services in spite of a decision by a “minority” of its pilots to hold a series of 24-hour strikes starting next Thursday.

Unions have demanded that private sector workers receive a €1,000 pay hike next year.

Sports Direct International has said it will spend £10 million (€14m) increasing workers’ salaries as it seeks to end a dispute over its treatment of employees.

Small and medium business group ISME say most of their members cannot afford pay rises for workers.

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions created a detailed pre-budget statement in which it laid out a number of costed measures it believes would begin to make tangible differences in the lives of people who were yet to benefit from the recovering economy.

Hopes have emerged that the Irish operations of HSBC will be unaffected by the bank’s plans to cut up to 50,000 jobs from its worldwide operations.

Saturday’s water protest was the first real manifestation of an effort to organise on the left of the political spectrum and a seething electorate may grant it some success, writes Michael Clifford.

A cohort of the country’s leading academics has called on the Government to publicly back a European debt conference and offer to host the event, in a show of solidarity with Greece.

British insurer Aviva said yesterday it may cut 1,500 jobs by the end of 2017 from a total workforce of 31,500 following its planned £5.6bn (€7.3bn) acquisition of rival Friends Life.

More than 4,000 Dunnes Stores staff are to be balloted for industrial action up to strike — over, what their trade union says, is the failure of the company to implement a Labour Court recommendation.

Average wages fell by less than 8% since 2008, yet disposable income, which governs people’s “living standards”, fell by as much as 20% in the last six years, a trade union economic think-tank claimed.

Huge crowds have gathered in Dublin to take part in today's protest against water charges.

Comedian-turned- activist Russell Brand has called on Irish people to skip work this Wednesday and march against water charges instead.

Comedian-turned-activist Russell Brand has called on Irish people to skip work this Wednesday and march against water charges instead.

The fact that one-in-three children are living in deprivation is a "social and moral indictment of the priorities of a government that privileges tax cuts over poverty reduction," it has been claimed.

Almost 1,000 workers in Irish Life have voted overwhelmingly to accept a Labour Court recommendation which will result in some of them getting a pay increase of as much as 7%.

Two men staging a sit-in in a tower crane at the site of a Dublin community college in have said they are prepared to remain there and go on hunger strike until they are paid the money they claim is owed to them.

Almost 1,200 Waterford Crystal workers appear to be on the verge of finally receiving €250m worth of pension entitlements for which they have been fighting for the last five years.

Thousands of people took part in a protest in Waterford City this afternoon in solidarity with the former Waterford Crystal workers who are still awaiting their pensions.

Almost a year after the European Court of Justice ruled in their favour and five years after they lost their jobs, former workers at Waterford Crystal have still not received tens of thousands of euro in pension entitlements to which the court said they were entitled.

A stinging range of cuts targeting the elderly, women, and the unemployed were yesterday inflicted by the Government in what it promised would be the last budget before Ireland exits the bailout and regains control of its finances.

There are fresh calls for a referendum on abortion, with a new campaign group urging a repeal of the eighth amendment giving an equal right to the life of a pregnant woman and the unborn child.

Secondary schoolteachers are to take industrial action over the revised public sector pay deal.

The UNITE trade union is calling on the government to introduce more than €3.1 bn in adjustments in the Budget.

Unite trade union is to seek a meeting with Heinz to discuss the implications of its restructuring plans on Irish workers.

The Government is being told to invest €2bn in getting thousands of people back to work.

Unite trade union have criticised the government for their lack of investment in jobs.

The Government’s €1bn public sector pay cut plan has further support after gardai and nurses gave it their backing.

The Unite Trade Union has deferred making a decision on what action to take following rejection of the Haddington Road deal.

Public sector workers of the Unite trade union have voted to reject the Government’s revised pay deal.

There has been a significant breakthrough in the new round of Croke Park 2 talks.

Waterford Crystal workers and the State could return to the High Court in the coming months to thrash out future pension payments to 1,700 former employees following a European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling yesterday.

Ten former Waterford Crystal workers have won a court battle against the Government over losses in their pensions.

Trade unions warned today that there will be industrial action if the Government imposes further public-sector pay cuts.

The UNITE trade union, which represents 10,000 workers in the financial sector, has said if bank salaries are to be cut, it must be at management level.

The Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore have said they want "most families" in mortgage arrears offered a sustainable solution by next year.