Health unions to ballot members for industrial action

INMO to cast ballots on industrial action today over safety concerns due to staff shortages

The union has criticised the HSE’s recruitment embargo, claiming it creates “very high-risk situations”.

Health unions to ballot members for industrial action

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) and Fórsa are to begin balloting healthcare workers for industrial action from today in a dispute over staff shortages.

INMO set to ballot members for industrial action today

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation have announced that today, Monday October 14, they will begin balloting its members for industrial action.  The union is doing so due to ‘large gaps in the nursing and midwifery workforce that are impacting the ability of its members to provide safe care’. A meeting of INMO representatives from around the country took place in Dublin on October 12 and heard how short staffing and HSE’s recruitment ban w…

Fears over potential industrial action impact at Sligo University Hospital

There are fears over how potential industrial action by nurses will impact Sligo University Hospital.   It comes as both nurses and midwives are being balloted today by the INMO, in a dispute over the ongoing HSE recruitment freeze and its impact on patient safety in hospitals.   There were a number of demonstrations at […] The post Fears over potential industrial action impact at Sligo University Hospital appeared first on Ocean FM.

INMO begins balloting members on industrial action

Move is in response to ongoing dispute between unions and the HSE and Department of Health around staffing levels The post INMO begins balloting members on industrial action appeared first on Irish Medical Times.