Fórsa and other unions are engaging with Aer Lingus management on a successor to the current pay agreement for non-pilot staff. The current 39-month deal winds up at the end of next June.

Community employment (CE) supervisors attended the Fine Gael constituency offices throughout the recent Dáil bye-election campaign to quiz candidates and existing TDs about the Government’s failure to reconvene the Community Sector High-Level Forum and find solutions to long-standing grievances.

The possibility that no public service pay agreement will be in place to follow the current deal when it expires at the end of next year has been raised by Fórsa at a meeting of ICTU’s Public Service Committee.

The Private Sector Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions is advising unions in the private sector to seek baseline pay increases ranging between 3.5% and 4.5% in 2020.

Just one in every five people who experience sexual harassment in their workplace report it, according to a new survey by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU).

Ireland needs a total rework of its ideas about economic development if we are to achieve a ‘green new deal,’ according to Maynooth academic Dr Lorna Gold.

Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil senators united last week to block a Seanad bill that would have strengthened protections for low-paid workers in shops, hotels, restaurants, hairdressing and catering.