A national one-day strike by school secretaries and caretakers, which was scheduled to take place this week, was deferred when the education department made significant concessions in a Workplace Relations Commission-brokered negotiation.

Fórsa is currently engaging with higher education employers on a range of measures ahead of the phased return of staff and students to campus later this month.

It’s been reported that the Pensions Commission has recommended that a planned increase in the State pension age to 67 should be delayed by at least seven years.

Fórsa is to sit down with civil service management for talks on a ‘blended working’ policy next week. 

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) has expressed "significant concerns” about the targets for public housing provision, affordable housing and cost rental homes set out in the Government’s new housing policy.

The new home for all of Fórsa’s training and development initiatives was launched yesterday (16^th September). The Fórsa Skills Academy will offer a wide range of introductory, expanded and advanced training designed for the union’s workplace representatives and branch activists.