Labour Youth is opening a book of condolence for the victims of the Norwegian massacre.

THE country’s unemployment rate is likely to rise slightly this year, before showing a minor decrease in 2012, the Central Bank forecast yesterday.

A trade union boss today called on its 100,000 members to get the Government to stop indulging in policy which it claims is akin to 'sleepwalking over an economic cliff'.

One of the country’s largest unions today said it would cooperate with the introduction of the Croke Park pay deal – despite its members voting against the pact.

Unions lined up tonight to launch vicious attacks on the Government threatening months of angry disputes and strikes over pay cuts.

SIPTU wants to see more rigorous auditing procedures implemented at FÁS to prevent a repeat of the excessive spending that was revealed at the State body last week.

A FRESH assault against the Government’s second attempt to pass the Lisbon treaty has been launched by an alliance of no campaigners.

Trade union Unite said the arrest of some 30 Thomas Cook workers at the company's Grafton St premises this morning was "a dark stain on the history of industrial relations in Ireland".

Efforts are expected to continue over the weekend to save jobs at SR Technics in Dublin.

Trade union chiefs will hold talks today with a US-based investment group lining up a potential rescue offer for troubled Waterford Crystal.

World-renowned company Waterford Crystal is too important to be allowed to shut down, union leaders warned today.

The health service in the North should be exempt from 3% efficiency savings which threaten to cut services to the bone, workers claimed today.

MEMBERS of one of the country’s top unions have rejected the draft national wage deal.

SIPTU said the Government’s failure to convince workers meant it only had itself to blame for its failure to get a yes vote on the Lisbon treaty.

IRISH private sector wages are the lowest of any of the EU’s 10 wealthiest countries, a trade union claimed last night.

CIVIL servants in Dublin will never co-operate with the decentralisation programme while they continue to be treated as commodities, the country’s largest trade union claimed last night.

A Filipina nurse who was targeted with her family in a petrol bomb attack was tonight thinking about leaving the North and going home.

TAYTO workers last night voted to reject a redundancy deal which would have capped the size of payments to long-serving members.

AIB has engaged a British charity to provide safeguards for staff who want to disclose wrongdoing in the company while legislation to protect whistleblowers in Ireland has lain on the shelf for more than five years.

The threatened closure of a state factory which employed blind people was averted by Health Minister Michael Martin tonight.

A three-year Aer Lingus restructuring plan will not work without the support of unions and staff, union leaders claimed tonight.

Transport Minister Seamus Brennan has been accused of giving Aer Rianta workers "a slap in the face", in a letter they received yesterday.

The company at the centre of the Ballymun lifts dispute has issued legal proceedings against the Technical Engineering and Electrical Union today in an effort to apply extra pressure in the three-week long lift strike.