The nurses’ strike is about so much more than our nurses, writes Joyce Feegan.

Ryanair has written to trade union Forsa in connection with the airline's cancellation of 16 flights next Tuesday.

Public transport has largely come to a halt across much of Brazil as protesters blocked roads and scuffled with police in a general strike to protest against proposed changes to labour laws and the pension system.

Latest: Union representatives at Bus Éireann have said some clarity has been brought about following today's lengthy discussions.

Latest: Next week's Bus Éireann strike, which threatened to grind services across the country to the halt, has been postponed to allow for intensive talks.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has become the latest union to threaten industrial action unless it receives immediate pay increases and working life improvements, writes Fiachra O Cionnaith, Political correspondent.

The ASTI say they would be willing to enter third party negotiations aimed at ending the teachers strike.

Efforts resume again today to find agreement in the teachers' pay dispute.

Doctors could be set to strike as part of a row with the HSE.

Enda Kenny's issued a new appeal for Gardaí to begin talks with the government to avert planned strike action next month.

The Education Minister says he hopes to have cooperation from the ASTI in the event of a strike, so that schools can stay open.

The Minister for Transport has been accused as being a political cretin as Dublin Bus drivers mount pickets again this morning.

Update: 11.30pm: SIPTU says Dublin Bus management needs to come to the talks table.

Hundreds of thousands of commuters in the greater Dublin area will face more traffic chaos from 9pm tonight.

Unions representing drivers at Dublin Bus are to ballot their members on strike action in an ongoing dispute over pay.

A tenth day of strike action by Luas workers is taking place today.

There are calls for the creation of an independent task force to find a solution to the Luas pay row.

Talks at the Workplace Relations Commission over planned strikes by Luas workers have ended for the weekend.

Staff at the Cadbury plant in Coolock are to return to work this evening, after the suspension of strike action at the factory.

Two days of strike action at Luas look set to go ahead next month after talks collapsed at the Workplace Relations Commission yesterday.

Trade union chiefs and Luas bosses have been urged to restart negotiations on workers’ pay in a last-ditch attempt to avert a two-day strike due to kick in at 5.30am on Thursday.

Lecturers at the country's Institutes of Technology are going on strike.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has warned nurses an imminent strike over Ireland's ongoing hospital trolley crisis "will not help anyone" as he insisted the problem is being addressed and that "the numbers speak for themselves".

Workers who operate security scanners at Stansted Airport are to take fresh strike action in a row over pay.

The Pyschiatric Nursing Association has suspended industrial action at a Dublin home for people with intellectual disabilities.