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NURSES BODY THE Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) has confirmed its “willingness to engage” with the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) ahead of a planned day of industrial action.
However, that industrial action planned for next Tuesday has not been suspended or deferred, and at present is still expected to proceed.
The decision by the INMO this evening came as a result of a statement from the Lansdowne Road Agreement Oversight Body which urged both the INMO and the health service to end the dispute using the mechanisms already in place.
Having “considered” that statement, a spokesperson for the INMO this evening confirmed that the organisation had “indicated its availability to commence these discussions immediately”.
However, the spokesperson added that the pending industrial action “has not been suspended or deferred”.
“More clarity should be available after the executive council’s next meeting,” they said. That meeting is planned for this Saturday.
More than 30,000 of the organisation’s members had planned to work-to-rule next Tuesday, 7 March. That action will see those involved refuse to do overtime or plug gaps between wards; however they will perform their normal working duties.
The INMO claims the action is about a lack of staffing and safety for both nurses and patients.
A series of further strikes are planned for later in March should a resolution not be found.
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If any group deserves improved conditions it’s nurses. Nurses work an average of 1872 hours annually compared to 735 hours for a teacher yet it’s the teachers making all the noise….baffling!
@Soccer T’s: If teaching is so easy feel free to become a teacher.
If it’s so difficult feel free to change career
@Soccer T’s: Why should I stop being a doctor because teaching is a challenging job?
Patients will die for every minute nurses go on strike.
I hope the union thinks twice before beginning a genocide of our most vulnerable.
A little hyperbolic there al…
@Al Ca: sure the government via cuts to support have done that last few years.
@FifiJamming: Are you claiming that nurses don’t save lives? That’s a little insulting.
@Al Based on your comment, if nurses go on strike for 24 hours, 1440 people will die. Damn!
@Soccer T’s: The idea that 1,440 people would need urgent hospital care out of a population of 4.5 million is hardly shocking.
They won’t need care if they are all dead but they will need undertakers. Another career option for you
Well you’d better be a good Doctor.
Do YOUR job well and stop undermining others.
You said die… yes they’ll obv have urgent care, but you did say they’d all die because of the strike. Now if your arbitrary number is on top of the norm – then yes, your statement is hyperbolic
Oh god the world is just full of ignorant people. I am surprised daily even though I shouldn’t be shocked by it anymore.
And that comment is pointed directly at Al Ca. I genuinely don’t understand someone commenting on something they clearly have no knowledge about.
I bet the nurses you work with love you Al!
Article is a it misleading – it’s a work to rule FROM Tuesday mArch 7th, with one day work stoppages (strike days) to be announced. It’s not a work to rule ON Tuesday March 7th!
Unless the INMO talks with the WRC lead to a resolution on safe staffing, recruitment and retention measures that work.
https://www.inmo.ie/Home/Index/217/12858
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