RTÉ reports that Siptu local authority workers across the country have warned the Government they are “fully prepared to take swift and immediate strike action if they are forcibly transferred to the Irish Water utility”. Crucial talks involving the Government, Irish Water and trade unions, including Fórsa, are due to take place in the coming weeks.

Elsewhere, the Government is to review employment law concerning workers in the gig economy. It follows a meeting between Leo Varadkar and Deliveroo riders who were accompanied by union reps and groups representing immigrants.

The Financial Services Union is to establish a forum to discuss the future of the banking and financial sectors in Ireland and Northern Ireland. It comes in the wake of the recent turmoil in the area which has seen a major scandal rock Davy, Ulster Bank announce their plans to depart from the Republic and plans by AIB and Bank of Ireland to close the number of branches.

Down South, workers at a company providing support services at Cork Airport are to ballot for strike action. The six workers were told this week by their employer OCS - a company which provides wheelchair assistance at the airport - that three of them were to be laid off permanently from April 6th. 

The latest in our suite of International Women's Day blogs is this piece by Siptu's Ethel Buckley, which examines how unions can shrink the gender pay gap.

And finally, if you've ever been kept up late at night wondering how big a golfer would have be to drive a ball off the UCD water tower if it were a golf tee, wonder no more. This Twitter thread determines, through intricate calculations, that Rory McIlroy would have to be 230m taller than Carrauntoohil to take a swing.