Staff at the Bausch and Lomb plant in Waterford have voted to accept pay proposals aimed at averting industrial action at the plant.

Siptu has called for Ibec’s appointee to the Workplace Relations Commission to “consider her position” after the employer’s body criticised a Labour Court recommendation.

The long-awaited deal to secure the Vita Cortex workers ex-gratia redundancy was finally signed off on yesterday.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Jobs Minister Richard Bruton were among those expressing their happiness at the resolution of the row between workers and management at Vita Cortex.

After 139 days of round-the-clock sit-ins, the former employees of Vita Cortex have finally secured a severance deal with their former employer which will allow them to go home within a fortnight.

The Taoiseach has welcomed the resolution of a row over redundancy packages for Vita Cortex workers in Cork.

A 20-week protest by former workers at Vita Cortex has come to an end after union representatives accepted terms for outstanding redundancy pay.

SIPTU members at Vita Cortex have voted unanimously to accept proposals aimed at bringing their 139 day dispute with the company over redundancy payments to an end.

Siptu last night called on Vita Cortex boss Jack Ronan to respond to reports that Nama has offered him a way of ending the 111-day sit-in by his former workers in Cork.

Vita Cortex workers have agreed to engage in a new mediation process in a bid to end their marathon sit-in.

Road restrictions are in place in cities and towns across the country today to facilitate hundreds of St Patrick's Day parades.

Hopes of a breakthrough in the protracted Vita Cortex dispute were dashed last night.

Workers at Vita Cortex have defended their decision to reject an offer of partial redundancy payments designed to end their 78-day sit-in.

Siptu last night said it had rejected what it described as, a “derisory offer” made to the Vita Cortex workers staging a sit-in at their former employer’s Cork plant.

The employers’ union Ibec has accused Siptu of “a pattern of misrepresentation” of the facts of the bitter Vita Cortex dispute.

“If I could pick up the phone and tell him to find the redundancy money, I would.”

TALKS aimed at ending a month-long sit-in by the Vita Cortex workers in Cork will resume on Friday after they finished last night without a resolution.

FOR the fifth year in a row, there has been a decline in the number of people killed on the country’s roads.

THE 2020 Strategy Committee for agri-food, forestry and fisheries is drawn from senior experts and participants in all aspects of the sector.

EMPLOYERS across the country are cherry-picking employees for redundancy rather than obeying last-in, first-out principles, it has been claimed.

NEW Government legislation allowing companies to claim inability to pay staff the minimum wage applicable in their sector will lead to major job losses and an end to decent wages, the country’s largest trade union has claimed.

SIPTU has sought permission from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions for an all-out picket of Coca-Cola’s operations across the country over the ongoing seven-week dispute between the company and former workers.

MORE than 670 redundancies along with pay cuts and new inferior pensions for remaining workers at Aer Lingus mean the former national airline’s passengers face yet another winter of strike threats.

Government TDs returning to the Dáil after summer recess today faced angry protests against the State’s National Asset Management Agency (Nama) scheme and allegations of a bail-out for financial institutions.

IN spite of strikes at a number of its distribution centres yesterday, Coca-Cola has vowed to press ahead with outsourcing or laying off 130 staff on September 8.

RYANAIR, which has failed twice to take over its rival, Aer Lingus, last night accused it of issuing incorrect information to the market last December in the heat of the takeover battle.

Workers at Coca Cola Ireland are to strike over the company’s decision to outsource around 130 jobs, it was revealed today.

HOPES grew for three Irish families that their loved ones’ final resting place will be traced after wreckage thought to be from the missing Air France plane was spotted in seas off the coast of northern Brazil.

MIGRANT workers will stage a protest in Dublin today against new work permit regulations which could leave hundreds unable to retain secure jobs.

SIPTU is to meet with Tesco supplier representatives on Monday over fears that thousands of jobs could be lost over the supermarket’s decision to source products overseas in order to reduce prices here.

THERE was mixed news for the country’s mine workers yesterday.

THE Government has agreed to a €180 million compensation package of taxpayer’s money to support the pork processing industry following the contamination crisis last week.

THE traditional full Irish breakfast with rashers, sausages and black and white pudding is back to tickle the taste buds of consumers countrywide.

Aer Lingus workers have today backed an alternative cost-cutting plan hammered out with the airline’s bosses.

Talks aimed at averting strike action at Aer Lingus have been continuing this afternoon at the Labour Relations Commission.

THE Government has given no indication when its dispute mediation body will adjudicate on the battle between Aer Lingus and its staff which threatens to ground thousands of passengers this Christmas.

Trade union Siptu tonight called on Aer Lingus to implement cost-cutting measures without outsourcing 1,300 jobs.

Aer Lingus passengers could face travel chaos later this month after Siptu today served two weeks strike notice on the airline over its cost-cutting plans.

SIPTU's members at Aer Lingus have backed a call for strike action if the company attempts to enforce its highly controversial cost-cutting plan.

Aer Lingus passengers face travel chaos after hundreds of staff voted to strike over the airline’s multimillion-euro cost-cutting plans, it was revealed tonight.

SIPTU will today conclude its ballot for strike action at Aer Lingus over the airline’s plans to outsource or make redundant 1,300 ground staff.

SIPTU has asked the Government to intervene over Aer Lingus’s plans to shed the jobs of more than 1,300 of its ground-staff members.

AER LINGUS has been accused of “going through the motions” in the failed talks with unions over its plans to axe 1,500 jobs at the airline.