The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) has criticised rising chief executive pay levels, saying they are increasingly out of touch with average worker pay conditions.

SIPTU have announced that more than 7,000 support grade staff working in major hospitals and other healthcare centres across the state will be balloted for strike action early in the New Year.

Trade unions have called for four-day working weeks as they believe advances in technology have made reduced hours more feasible.

This follows similar agreements signed over the past week with pilot unions SEPLA in Spain, SPAC in Portugal and BALPA in the UK, covering all of Ryanair’s directly employed Spanish, Portuguese and UK Pilots.

The Connect Trade Union has voted to seek to increase the number of women taking up apprenticeships in the trades.

A "historic" union recognition agreement has been signed with Ryanair covering hundreds of cabin crew in the UK, Unite has announced.

Fórsa has become the latest trade union to threaten industrial action over the continued refusal to restore pay cuts imposed on section 39 workers.

Gardaí should be constrained from withdrawing their labour or given full trade union status, a top-level government body has recommended.

This year’s Spirit of Mother Jones Award has been presented to Ken Fleming, the trade unionist who has spent more than a decade fighting for the rights of exploited seafarers both here and in Britain.

The country’s leading trade union leader has said the new public sector pay deal must address the haemorrhaging of skills and staff, which has reached a “crisis” point in some professions.

The Communication Workers Union backed Mr Corbyn, having supported him in last year's election.

The threat of industrial action at public libraries has eased after a national library merger plan was dropped.

The Impact trade union is calling for a constitutional referendum on protecting our water infrastructure.

A trade union is today calling on the Government to outlaw so-called "zero-hours" contracts.

The Mandate trade union has claimed that over 100 jobs are to go at Dunnes Stores in Gorey.

A trade union strike committee will decide on Tuesday what form of industrial action up to 5,000 staff will take at Dunnes Stores.

A trade union representing 30,000 health workers has warned the Government’s proposed health insurance system will a place a “universal financial burden on families with no guarantee of universal access to healthcare”.