IMPACT News Digest - Friday 14th October 2016

 

Good morning colleagues,

Here's a look at some of today's front pages. ASTI's decision to take industrial action gets a mention.

With others unions watching, a change of tack on the public pay strategy appears unlikely writes Martin Wall in the Irish Times. While the Cabinet is set to agree a freeze on pay increases for ministers.

CIT lecturers seek to step up industrial action.

The Irish Independent reports that new homes soared €45,000 in the hours after the budget.

ICTU's Global Solidarity Committee has called on Ireland to take immediate action to support refugees in Calais.

There’s no question that technology is drastically changing the way we work, but what will the job market look like by 2050? asks Charolotte Seager in the Guardian.

Today's photo from the Irish Times photographs a mural of Bob Dylan,in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US. Photograph: Craig Lassig/Reuters

Today's zen has to go to Bob Dylan as he is awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. Here are some of his classics. Yes the times they are a-changin'.

Have a good day and a great weekend, although the forecast is for lots and lots of rain.

Martina O'Leary

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