Emergency staff vote for industrial action a week before Christmas

Dublin People 24 Nov 2015
Beaumont Hospital

MEMBERS of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO), working in all of the country’s emergency departments, have voted overwhelmingly for a campaign of industrial action.

This measures, which will include strike action, are in protest at continuing overcrowding, inadequate staffing levels and what “the ongoing compromising of patient care”.

In the recent ballot, over 92 per cent of members voted in favour of taking industrial action involving the withdrawal of labour, saying they have simply had enough of broken promises. 

The INMO is today serving formal notice on the HSE and all relevant health service employers, that the campaign of industrial action will commence on Tuesday, December 15.

In keeping with the agreed health service protocol, the union is providing three weeks’ notice and will be indicating its availability to agree contingency measures.

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