The Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors begin a two-day meeting today to decide whether it will escalate a campaign against cuts to members’ premium payments.

UNITE is formally recommending a rejection of the new Croke Park Agreement.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has hit out at TalkTalk management, claiming the telecoms giant should have given the Government better notice it was shutting its south-east call centre.

Some 575 workers at a major employer in the south-east are facing the dole in 30 days after telecomms giant TalkTalk dramatically announced it was shutting its call centre.

PERMANENT TSB and staff unions are at odds as to how many job losses are to result from the company’s latest restructuring plan.

Permanent TSB has confirmed it will axe 280 jobs over the coming months.

THE UNITE trade union has upped the pressure on the Government with a call for widespread industrial action and civil disobedience, if measures to revive the economy are not implemented.

WATERFORD Crystal workers have spent a fourth night occupying the company’s visitors centre in Kilbarry waiting for news of whether 300 jobs will be saved by a new buyer.

Angry workers at the threatened Waterford Crystal factory dug their heels in tonight with a bitter attack on critics as they vowed to continue a sit-in for a fourth night.

Workers at Waterford Crystal are supporting a bid for the company made by Clarion Capital.

WATERFORD Crystal workers last night spent a third night occupying the Kilbarry plant in the hope that a bid from a US private equity firm, Clarion Capital, could save 480 jobs.

WORKERS at the Waterford Crystal Kilbarry plant, which ceased production at lunchtime yesterday, vented their frustrations by storming the Gallery Kilbarry plant shortly after 3pm.

PERSONAL loan guarantees by Tony O’Reilly and his brother-in-law Peter Goulandris could add a further €40 million to their mounting losses in the collapsed Waterford Wedgwood Group.

THE iconic Waterford Crystal brand which once employed more than 3,000 people in the southeast will soon have just 200 people left in Waterford city following the latest round of job cuts announced yesterday.

Angry trade union leaders tonight vowed to fight plans to effectively end glass-making at Waterford Crystal’s last remaining Irish factory.

About 280 jobs are to go at the Waterford Crystal factory, the company confirmed today.

Glass making at Ireland’s world renowned Waterford Crystal factory is being brought to a virtual standstill, it emerged tonight.

TWO of the country’s leading employers in Kildare and Waterford are to lay off more than 500 staff.

EMPLOYEES at the troubled Waterford Crystal plant in Kilbarry have been told that the company intends to introduce short-time working in the coming weeks.

Fears are growing tonight for up to 500 jobs under threat at the home of world renowned Waterford Crystal.

ENTERPRISE Minister Micheál Martin has promised that Dungarvan will be made a priority area for job creation.

UNION officials at Waterford Crystal have described as “outrageous and obscene” the bonuses paid to seven executives at a time when the company was axing 485 jobs in Dungarvan.

UP to 300 Waterford Crystal workers are taking legal action and looking for their share of the profit from the rezoned lands owned by the company and used by its sports and social club.

Niamh Nolan

FEARS were growing last night that Waterford Crystal's entire operation in Dungarvan could face closure with the loss of almost 400 jobs.

A CLEANING company which has been involved in a pay row with staff has sacked all of its 140 employees in Waterford.