PNA members in two-day ambulance strike
About 600 ambulance personnel from the Psychiatric Nurses Association are starting a two-day strike. It will last from from 7am to 5pm today and tomorrow. In the north west, today’s action involves about 240 staff; they include paramedics as well as emergency medical technicians. They are members of the National…
Ambulance personnel in the north west on strike today
Ambulance personnel in the North West say the HSE has made no effort to communicate with them to try to resolve an ongoing dispute over union membership. Workers who are members of the Psychiatric Nurses Association are on picket lines across the region for a second day today. Members are…
Staffing a key issue for striking nurses
More than 3,000 nurses throughout Sligo, Leitirm and Donegal are continuing their protest action this afternoon. The first all-out strike by the INMO since 1999 is the latest in an ongoing campaign for improved staffing levels, pay and conditions. Despite the first heavy overnight snow and frost this winter, nurses…
Ambulance personnel strike across the north west
Ambulance personnel across various locations in the north west are on strike today in a row over union recognition. The industrial action will continue until 5 o’clock this evening. Therese Madden reports from the picket line at Sligo University Hospital. Members of the Psychiatric Nurses Association are picketing at Sligo…
Mandate enter 4th day of industrial action at Sligo and Carrick on Shannon Tesco Stores
Mandate Trade Union members are into their 4th day of industrial action today at the Tesco store in Sligo. The store in Carrick on Shannon also joins the strike today which began in both places this morning when they opened and plan to stay until close. Mandate say their are…
Tesco workers in Sligo on the picket line again
Employees from the Tesco store in Sligo are taking strike action again today for the third time in the last month. The Mandate Trade Union members have already been on strike on Thursday, December 6th and Friday, December 14th and will continue with their industrial action tomorrow. Union members in…
Psychiatric Nurses Association defer strike action
Members of Psychiatric Nurses Association from the North West have deferred the one day strike action by its ambulance personnel. The strike was due to take place next Wednesday, December 19th but it has now been postponed until Tuesday, January 22nd. Spokesperson for the PNA says there are two issues…