A senior Irish Congress of Trade Unions official has said he and colleagues had a "giggle" over claims that allowing PDForra to affiliate with it was a threat to national security.

It wouldn’t be Easter week without it.

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has warned of the consequences for workers of a no-deal Brexit.

Teachers, doctors and nurses are not happy with the pay deal being offered by the Government in October's budget.

The US supreme court has ruled that government workers cannot be forced to contribute to unions that represent them in collective bargaining, dealing a serious financial blow to organised labour in America.

Unions are calling on the Government to waste no time restoring pay equality for new public service recruits.

Unions at Bus Éireann say a rostering issue that sparked fresh unrest at the company in recent weeks has been resolved.

The spectre of further rail chaos has receded after unions representing Irish Rail workers opted to suspend industrial action pending the result of a ballot on a Labour Court recommendation.

It is hardly coincidental that the fall in real pay and circumstances faced by so many private-sector workers runs parallel to the decline in trade-union membership. Unions still hold sway in the public sector but, in the private sector, unions are but shadows of the force they once were.

Joyce Fegan answers the latest questions on Ryanair.

The power of trade unions in the health sector is the greatest barrier to reform and progress, newly appointed minister for state at the Department of Health Jim Daly has said.

The INTO said the reasons for austerity-era pay cuts no longer exist.

One of the country’s largest trade unions has voiced fears over the ongoing public sector pay talks, claiming that government plans would reduce incomes, rather than restore them.

When the negotiators enter talks on a new public service pay deal on Monday, the unions and management will clearly have very different aspirations for what the outcome will be a fortnight later, writes Stephen Rogers.

Not so long ago, people regularly advised one to “wake up and smell the coffee”.

Unions representing members of Dublin Fire Brigade and the City Council have agreed to mediation.

A resolution to the Bus Éireann dispute may never be found, unions have warned, after the company suggested a number of “out-of-bounds and repulsive” cost cutting measures.

Latest: Tesco Ireland has responded to union allegations that the company was trying to force long-term workers out and branding the allegations "a campaign of myths and misinformation".

Bus Éireann workers have accused the company of engaging in “open warfare” after it announced a series of “draconian” pay cuts which threaten to push the semi-state company into strike action within weeks.

Unions at Bus Éireann have said they want to minimise the impact of any strike action on those who rely exclusively on the company’s services, particularly those in rural areas and schoolchildren.

Bus Éireann workers will discuss the future of the company with their unions today.

Revitalising small towns takes many things: A bus or rail service is one of them, writes Gerard Howlin.

The Government has moved to distance itself from the escalating funding crisis within Bus Éireann, claiming it is a matter for the company and unions to resolve.

Teachers could defy their own union heads in accepting a Government deal.

Unions have demanded that private sector workers receive a €1,000 pay hike next year.

With both Dublin Bus and Luas drivers securing double-digit wage increases and gardaí threatening strikes over their pay, two of the country’s leading trade unionists have called for a renegotiation of the latest public service pay agreement.

Workers at Dublin Bus are to be balloted next week on whether to accept a pay deal reached at the WRC after marathon talks yesterday.

Tensions over the possibility of industrial action within the Garda Síochána have heightened after the ruling body of the largest staff association yesterday failed to reach an agreement over a pay proposal.

A strategy for an all-out strike at Dublin Bus cannot be decided until all the unions have completed their ballots.

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

Unions representing drivers at Dublin Bus are seeking a 30% pay increase – to match the pay deal Luas drivers just secured.

Staff in Bord Na Móna's transport division are threatening industrial action.

Several unions look set to test the mettle of the minority Government on pay issues, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.