SIPTU has called on the Government to set up a taskforce to plan for looming US trade tariffs.
It wants trade unions, employers groups and the relevant Government Departments and agencies involved in it.
It says threatened tariffs by President Trump could jeopardise many of the 210,000 staff employed here by US firms.
SIPTU Deputy General Secretary Greg Ennis says workers in the pharmaceutical and Foreign Direct Investment sector need their jobs protected: