As the Irish Congress of Trade Unions pushes for private sector pay rises of 4% in 2017, employers say the figure could be 2.5% or 3% this year.

Long-serving Tesco workers are to start an indefinite strike in more than 70 stores tomorrow after talks on changes to their contracts broke down at the Workplace Relations Commission.

Almost 1,000 long-serving Tesco employees have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action over management plans to place them on what the workers view as inferior contracts.

Tesco workers say plans by management to defer pay cuts are unlikely to make any difference to the outcome of their ballot on strike action.

Industrial unrest is brewing at Tesco Ireland over management plans to put hundreds of long-serving staff on new contracts and its withholding of a 2% pay increase from them.

Close to 1,000 of Tesco’s Irish employees are to be hit with significant pay cuts if the retailer succeeds in moving some of its longest-serving staff to different contracts.

Dunnes Stores staff have called on members of the public to join them and the wider trade union movement today as they march to the company’s head office in Dublin to demand fairer working conditions.

Despite ongoing tensions between management and staff which saw a one-day stoppage last month, Dunnes Stores is understood to have signed off on a 3% pay rise for its workers.

The union representing workers at Dunnes Stores has confirmed that it has lodged a claim for a 3% pay increase for its members — and that its national protest march over terms and conditions at the company will take place on June 6.

Dunnes Stores workers who are members of the Mandate trade union are to hold a national day of protest in Dublin in early June.

Mandate trade union shop stewards representing staff at Dunnes Stores will meet within the next fortnight to decide how to escalate the strike campaign following a one-day stoppage almost two weeks ago.

The trade union representing some workers in Dunnes Stores has claimed the company has targeted staff who took part in last week’s strikes for dismissal and reduced hours.

The union which co-ordinated the Dunnes Stores strike has welcomed news that collective bargaining legislation could be enacted within months.

The union representing up to 5,000 workers in Dunnes Stores has called on shoppers and other workers in the company not to cross the picket-line when it stages a one-day strike at stores on Easter Thursday.

A trade union strike committee will decide on Tuesday what form of industrial action up to 5,000 staff will take at Dunnes Stores.

Unions representing Dunnes Stores workers said they have been threatened with redundancies if they choose to strike.

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.

Staff at Dunnes Stores are to ballot for industrial action.

The fact that it can take over two years to reach a verdict underlined one of the great failings in the workplace dispute resolution machinery, writes Brian McDonald

A group of disgruntled Dunnes Stores workers made a special delivery to the company’s head office yesterday — a Christmas wish list signed by 1,300 —employees, demanding improved working conditions.

A group of Dunnes Stores workers will deliver a giant Christmas card to the company's head office later with a message on improving working conditions.

Mandate, the union that represents shop workers, has called on Irish retailers to stop stocking Israeli produce.

A male sales assistant at an Irish branch of M&S was sacked after he ‘hid’ children’s clothes on a rack and later bought them as a gift for a child relative.

Workers at Marks & Spencer have overwhelmingly rejected a Labour Court recommendation, once again raising the potential for strikes at the retailer.

Lifestyle Sports is being accused of using staff as "leverage in a game of poker".

The economic indicators are turning up. Can upward pressure on wages in the private and commercial state sector be far behind?

Strike action planned for tomorrow at Marks and Spencer has been called off, after workers voted to accept a recommendation by the Labour Court.

The Labour Court is to hear from both sides in the Marks and Spencer dispute on Friday.

Mandate Trade Union has criticised the decision by Marks and Spencer to open some of its smaller stores around the country today - while more than 2,000 workers are on strike.

More than 2,000 staff at Marks & Spencer are due to start a series of one-day stoppages in the run-up to Christmas, beginning next Saturday.

Marks and Spencer workers are to strike across Ireland in the run-up to Christmas, trade union Mandate has said.

Marks & Spencer is facing the potential of strike action by 2,000 staff in the run-up to Christmas over its plans to close down the defined benefit pension scheme.

Staff at four Marks & Spencer stores are being balloted for strike action in a dispute that is threatening to escalate into a nationwide action.

Almost 400 job losses were confirmed in two of the country’s largest retailers, HMV and B&Q, yesterday.

More than 1.1m people will be hit with extra charges through the abolition of the employee’s PRSI weekly free allowance, and will see workers, many low-paid, having to pay at least €264 each per year.

THE future of 2,800 jobs at Superquinn has been secured after its directors dropped a legal challenge to put the business into examinership.

Staff at Superquinn have warned that the retail chain will not survive if it gets bogged down in lengthy legal arguments over its receivership.

THOUSANDS of jobs have been put at risk at some smaller suppliers who delivered close to €28 million in goods to Superquinn, as the receiver does not have funds to pay them.

The Mandate trade union has been meeting with Superquinn’s senior management team since 8am this morning.

THE future of more than 2,800 jobs at Superquinn was uncertain last night following the appointment of a receiver to the supermarket chain.

Around a hundred workers from Superquinn in Naas are due to meet their trade union representatives at a meeting this morning.

Trade union representatives are to hold talks with Boots management at the Labour Relations Commission (LRC) in an attempt to resolve a pay dispute and head off industrial action planned for November 28.

MORE than 900 Boots staff working in 57 stores around the country are to be balloted for strike action over company plans to introduce cost-saving measures.