Mandate is to lodge a pay claim with Tesco on behalf of the 8,000 workers it represents.

A High Court action taken by man who was fired from his job with the ESB after being informed he is considered a risk to national infrastructure has been resolved.

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.

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.

Sandra Hughes maintained a notable family tradition when saddling Sub Lieutenant, Barry Geraghty’s only ride of the day, to land the Grade 2 Michael Purcell Memorial Novice Hurdle in Thurles yesterday.

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

Ascot Gold Cup winner Leading Light may have run his last race after picking up a nasty injury at Ascot on Saturday.

Gold Cup hero Leading Light made the perfect return to action in the Palmerstown House Estate Irish St Leger Trial Stakes on another fine afternoon for Aidan O’Brien at the Curragh yesterday.

Hot favourite Leading Light narrowly denied defending champion Estimate in a pulsating climax to the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot yesterday.

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 & 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.

Ante-post betting has never held any great attraction for this observer, but have to say the 25-1 on offer with some of the firms about Leading Light for next weekend’s Prix de L’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp was crying out to be taken.

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

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Light Heavy’s tenacious victory in the Follow Leopardstown On Facebook Race proved the highlight of a 118/1 double for Jim Bolger and Kevin Manning on a successful Spin 103.8 Student Race Day in sunny Leopardstown last evening.

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RUBI LIGHT, third behind dual winner Albertas Run and Kalahari King in the Ryanair Chase at Cheltenham last season, will skip the Gold Cup this year for another crack at the Ryanair after he finished second in the Lexus.

Demi Moore is ending her marriage to Ashton Kutcher.

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.

HUNDREDS of workers have been hit with a hammer blow for the new year as a spate of job losses was announced across the country yesterday.

DRUG companies were accused yesterday of conning the public by hyping up patented medicines with little new to offer while downplaying their side-effects.

A US babysitter convicted of videotaping herself performing sex acts with children as young as two-months-old was sentenced to 125 years in prison today.

A SENIOR trade union official has appealed to customers of Permanent TSB to refrain from abusing the bank’s staff in protest at its recent controversial decision to raise its mortgage interest rates.

Trade union Mandate today called on members of the public not to verbally and physically abuse Permanent TSB staff following the mortgage lenders' interest rate hike.

THE union representing workers in Dunnes Stores, has criticised the retailer for leaving its staff in limbo as to whether a takeover is imminent by another retailer.

DUNNES STORES has been accused of significantly reducing its staff hours in the fact of the economic downturn.

Mandate trade union has written to Superquinn chairman Simon Burke seeking assurances for the job securtiy of its 3,000 members employed at the supermarket chain.

PHARMACY workers are being used as pawns by their employers to advance their dispute with the Health Service Executive, the Mandate union claimed yesterday.

Kieren Fallon is relishing the opportunity to restore his link with Michael Stoute.

MASS marketing is a massive mistake, a former global chief marketing officer at McDonald’s told Irish food and drink companies at Marketplace Ireland yesterday.

Trade, energy and anti-terror efforts will be at the top of the agenda for European Union leaders’ summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin tomorrow in London.

Prince Of Light, trained by Mark Johnston, will bid to enhance his growing reputation by stepping up to Group One company at Newmarket on September 30.

BOHERDUFF LIGHT ended his racing career on the best possible note when winning the Langtons House Derby for the second successive year at Kilkenny on Friday night.

There was high drama in the penultimate race at Windsor this evening when Echo Of Light threw away a winning chance in the Christine Sharp Maiden Stakes.

Last year’s Derby winner North Light is set to return in the Tattersalls Gold Cup at the Curragh next month.

LAST year’s Derby winner North Light is set to return in the Tattersalls Gold Cup at the Curragh next month.