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Jimmy Somers, who has died aged 84, was a leading figure in the trade union movement and four-time Labour candidate for Dáil Éireann. Born in Cabra, north Dublin, on November 2, 1939, he was from a family of six boys and two girls. His father, Jimmy Sr, who worked for CIÉ, was a life-long labour activist whose values were shared from an early age by his son of the same name.

Translink's bus and train staff are to stage three more 24-hour strikes in the run up to Christmas.

Workers in the community and voluntary sector agencies were taking industrial action over a gap in pay compared to HSE staff.

The move is related to a pay dispute over different rates paid to the workers compared with counterparts employed directly by the state.

Community employment supervisors warn of strike ballot over access to pension scheme Siptu sets mid-April deadline for Government to table proposals to resolve issue Tue, Apr 6, 2021, 09:23   Community employment scheme supervisors are to ballot for strike action if the Government does not table proposals by the end of next week to deal with a long-running dispute over access to a pension scheme. The move would mark the reactivation of industrial action which saw hundreds of community employment scheme supervisors stage a one-day strike in February 2020, just before the onset of the Covid-1...