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HOSPITAL DOCTORS HAVE voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action over what they say are “dangerously long” working hours.
A ballot of approximately 1,000 Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors (NCHDs, who are also known as junior doctors) found 97 per cent voted in favour of escalating their campaign, up to and including strike action.
A special meeting of the Irish Medical Organisation’s NCHD committee will convene tomorrow to decide what form the industrial action will take.
The IMO has said it will cooperate fully with providing emergency cover during the action.
A member of the IMO said the ballot result was unambiguous. “Doctors are worried and angry,” said Eric Young, who pointed to the danger posed both to hospital patients and to doctors by the long working hours.
He criticised Minister for Health – and former head of the IMO – James Reilly, who today sympathised with junior doctors.
“When you read his comments in support of NCHDs, you’d think he was still president of the IMO,” said Young. “But he’s the Minister for Health now and he can fix this chaotic situation with the stroke of a pen but he won’t do it.”
Under the European Working Time Directive, employees can’t work more than 48 hours a week. However junior doctors regularly work up to twice as many hours per week – frequently on shifts lasting more than 24 hours each.
The IMO is calling for an immediate end of shifts of more than 24 hours and for the Department of Health to agree to comply with the European Working Time Directive by the end of next year.
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Third time lucky my hole.
Nothing floatable about EirCON.
If the EU imposed installation and customer care standards to Eircom this company would seize to exist in a very short timespan❗️
@antonov, cease,
Not surprised….This company is going down the tubes….customer service is almost non- existent.
Absolutely correct. If there was ever a company I’d like to see wiped off the map it’s this one. They are a pure irritant. My sister called them back in January to have broadband installed. They activated the landline, came out like 2 weeks later to install it, couldn’t install due to some problem, said they put us on the ‘priority list’ to sort the problem and get back to us within another 7-10 business days. Despite multiple calls, haven’t seen or heard from them since.
Your having a laugh!
We paid for it through our taxes initially.
It was then flogged off for privatisation and we rolled in to buy some.
They then dumped us out for a fraction of what we paid when the Banksters got together.
It has limped along as Voda shares worth now nothing.
And now they intend to go to the markets again….
Boycott this money pit.
This will be embarrassing
(BREATH HOLD)………baaaaahahahahahahahahahahaha
Congratulations you have just purchased E25,000 worth of eircom shares you should see a return… And it’s gone.
Was it not Albert Einstein who defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”.
Caveat emptor.
Is like the Robbie Keane of the telco sector – had earned multiples of its intrinsic value in transfer fees alone.
I think I’ll be staying away …
Worst broadband in the country, awful customer service also. Anybody buying shares in this outfit will lose a fortune.
“Fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me fool me a third time….??… well your not going to fool me again”George w Bush
Sell the infrastructure back to the government. Even if we pay through the nose for it , at least in the long term it’ll pay off.
unless your selling copper for scrap. Fibre is were it’s at which eircom are late into the game. You’d be better starting from nothing then pay through the nose for eircom.
The company should be split in two… Eirgrid should be made managers of the cables and poles while the call service should be sold off.
Catch me once, shame on you. Catch me twice, shame on me. Catch me a third time – someone is really out to take the p1ss.
They need to just cease to exist at this stage!!
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