The union representing lower paid civil servants has voted unanimously to ballot for industrial action if the Government imposes any cuts in pay and conditions.
The Civil Public and Services Union rejected the Croke Park II proposals last week.
At its annual conference in Galway, 350 delegates passed an emergency motion calling for a ballot for industrial action up to and including full strike action if the Government moves to introduce pay cuts or changes in terms and conditions through legislation or any form of other unilateral action.
The motion also opposes any attempt to "tweak" what it called the failed LRC proposals.
It also calls for further campaigning for higher taxes for the wealthy.
CPSU General Secretary Eoin Ronayne warned that the battle was only starting and that if the cuts are implemented, they will not be the last.
He said the CPSU would now hold further discussions with other unions opposing Croke Park II in order to build on the unity that is already there.
Mr Ronayne said they wanted to ensure that the CSPU was not "wrong-sided by others who would seek to get a couple of thousand to change their vote to cobble a deal together".
He said buying off interest groups was no way to solve problems.
Delegates voiced fury at the Government threat of cuts, and spoke in favour of industrial action.
Letterkenny delegate Maeve McGettigan warned that while 1913 is remembered for the Lock Out, 2013 will go down as the year of the Walk Out.
The CPSU has also voted to campaign to have salaries paid by cheque, postal order or cash to avoid bank charges payable on lodgements and withdrawal.
The motion from the Sligo branch said that depleted salaries can do without further loss through severe bank charges.
It states that what it calls "this indirect taxation" imposed by the banks is causing members unnecessary financial hardship and that they should have the option to receive their "meagre" salaries by other affordable means.
Delegates also voted to object to the imposition of monthly pay arrangements, instead of the present weekly or fortnightly arrangement.
Earlier, CPSU President Joan Byrne said they did not want to take industrial action but they had the strength, the means and the mettle to fight.
Ms Byrne told delegates that longer working hours would reduce their hourly pay rate, changes to flexible working would make it more difficult to combine work and family life, and new redeployment arrangements could force members out of the workplace.
The CPSU represents around 13,000 lower paid civil servants.
There is also a motion that the CPSU should urge all unions affiliated to Congress to sever links with the Labour Party.
It will also call for the Labour leader and former SIPTU official Eamon Gilmore not to be invited to the Congress biennial conference in July.
IMPACT in warning over changes
The IMPACT trade union has warned that it will have to "respond" if the Government imposes measures that go beyond that negotiated settlement that was accepted by their members.
IMPACT was one of five unions that voted to accept the Croke Park II proposals, though they were rejected by a majority of the Government's 290,000 employees.
In an update to members, General Secretary Shay Cody said it would be totally unacceptable if the existing package was changed in ways that worsen the situation for IMPACT members to accommodate other unions.
He said the union had met Labour Relations Commission Chief Executive Kieran Mulvey, who is trying to establish if there is any basis for a negotiated settlement.
Mr Cody said it would clearly be in the interests of all unions to secure the best outcome in any process the LRC recommends.
However, he told members it was difficult to see how the various positions of unions that had voted No could be reconciled.
He said that at this time, he does not think they can assume that the LRC will find scope to clarify or "finesse" the original package in ways that will both meet the employers' requirements and win acceptance by unions representing a majority of public servants.
Mr Mulvey is currently meeting each public service union and the management side separately to sound out their positions.
He is to report back to Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin within the next two weeks.
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