Siptu has declared that the Government has a clear responsibility to protect low income families in the wake of the rise in the cost of living.

Workers should unify to prevent employers displacing Irish employees and exploiting vulnerable migrants - that's the message at the SIPTU regional conference taking place in Killarney today.

The threat of industrial action, over severance for former Greencore employees, still remains a distinct possibility.

SIPTU has issued a stark warning to the Government and employers.

THE sale of the Great Southern Hotel group is set to become the first major stumbling block in social partnership talks as unions gear up to oppose any privatisation of the loss-making semi-State.

THE Government’s proposal to take pressure off A&E departments by putting more beds into wards could lead to industrial action, a nurses’ union warned last night.

HE didn’t give his workers a cent in redundancy payments and the Irish taxpayer will have to foot a €30 million bill to clean up his steel mill.

IRELAND’S largest trade union is preparing to take legal action against multinationals which have lost significant amounts of employee pension funds through malpractice or inside trading.

Irish workers are 65 times more likely to lose a day's work from sickness rather than strike action.

ATHLETICS Ireland moved a step closer to lodging a bid for the European cross-country championships when a three-man delegation met with representatives of the EAA in Germany last week.

SIPTU has called on all sectors of Irish society to promote the full economic, social and cultural rights of people with disabilities in Ireland.

BUSINESS groups, unions and Opposition politicians were very sceptical yesterday about Cork’s potential to become a gateway for major investment and growth over the next 20 years.

Joe O'Flynn has been elected as the new general secretary of the SIPTU trade union.

The battle for the top job in SIPTU is under way. Political Reporter Mary Dundon talks to Joe O’Flynn, one of the three contenders

LIVES will be put at risk by the impending cutbacks in the health service, a top hospital consultant warned yesterday.

Workers at the Youghal Carpet Yarns plant have been told their jobs are to go. The company is to close today following a meeting between unions, management and employees.

Four hundred workers at the Irish Ispat steel plant in Cork to discuss the shock announcement that the company is shutting down its operation.