A quarter of a million pay claims have already been lodged by unions representing private sector workers.

Private sector trade unions today demanded a €30 weekly rise for some 1.4m low paid workers.

HIBERNIAN staff have voted in favour of industrial action in protest at plans to relocate 580 jobs to India.

Insurance giant Hibernian was tonight facing a bitter row with staff over plans to axe almost 600 jobs as part of relocation to India.

THE union representing workers at Hibernian will go to the Labour Relations Commission if the company fails to row back on its shock decision to axe nearly 600 jobs in the next four years.

THE retrial of a Corkman on fraud charges in the US has been postponed again.

CONCERN over job security is rising, according to a survey of Unite trade union.

AN IRISHMAN facing trial in the US in connection with an alleged accounting scandal is seeking to have his case delayed.

THE responsibility of securing an adequate income in retirement is increasingly moving to Irish workers as employers shift away from defined benefit pension schemes.

Legal history was made in an Irish court today when an Irish businessman was arraigned by a US Federal judge via international satellite video link in relation to a corporate accounting scandal which wiped more than $1bn from the share price of communications giant Enterasys.

AN expected recommendation on the AIB staff pension scheme by the Labour Relations Commission (LRC) mirrors a series of deals negotiated over the last six months by the Amicus section of the recently merged Unite trade union, the body claimed yesterday.

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

A SURVEY of 2,000 workers in the financial sector has found that four out of five would be willing to take industrial action to protect their long term pension security.

Four out of five financial workers are willing to take industrial action to protect their long-term pension security, research revealed today.

UNION leaders expressed their disappointment that the Government did not cut the lower rate of tax for workers.

AMICUS has reached agreement in pension negotiation with Irish Life and Permanent TSB. The outline agreement was reached at a meeting yesterday between the bank and union officials.

AMICUS yesterday reached agreement on behalf of its members at Allianz Ireland to the insurance company’s pension arrangements.

The Amicus trade union has reached an agreement with insurance company Allianz over new pension arrangements for staff.

The British and Irish governments should pursue an all-island energy policy, Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Noel Dempsey said today.

THE erosion of workers’ pension benefits by employers represents an “invisible” wage cut of 10% to 20%, according to Jerry Shanahan, national secretary of Amicus.

FINANCIAL services union Amicus has warned foreign takeovers of Irish banks could have “serious implications” for Irish consumers.

STAFF at two State agencies have voted overwhelmingly to reject the Government's decentralisation plan.

Workers at Permanent-TSB have voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action as part of a dispute over pay, holidays and flexible working hours.

A LEADING trade union has warned up to 10,000 jobs in financial services could be lost as many companies move parts of their businesses to low-cost economies.

Amicus MSF, the union for manufacturing, science and finance workers, has said taxpayers will have to pick up the tab for shortfalls in occupational pensions.