The Psychiatric Nurses Association has suspended next week's strike action.
The Psychiatric Nurses Association has suspended next week's strike action.
500 ambulance personnel are picketing at locations across the country today in a dispute over union recognition.
MOREAround 500 ambulance service personnel who are members of the Psychiatric Nurses Association will go on strike tomorrow as part of an ongoing dispute over trade union representation rights.
MOREThe Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) is recommending that its members accept a pay deal aimed at preventing further strikes.
MORETeaching unions will stake their claim for more money for members, especially new entrants, if it emerges that nurses get more pay.
MOREThe Irish Nurses & Midwives Organisation (INMO) is to call on its members to accept the Labour Court's recommendations subject to negotiations.
MOREThe Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation is meeting this afternoon to discuss the recommendations issued by the Labour Court, following the suspension of strike action.
MOREIt will take months to reschedule some of the thousands of hospital appointment cancelled because of the nurses’ strike, it has emerged.
MOREUnion ‘working flat out’ to explain pay offer amid rising anger
MOREThe pay deal between the Government and nurses to end the nationwide hospital strike action will cost up to €50m over the next two years.
MOREA Meath nurse has written a hugely emotive post on why she left general nursing to become a flight medic, saying she had to train her bladder to go seven hours without visiting a toilet because she never had time on duty.
MORELatest: The INMO leadership will meet tomorrow to decide when its members will vote on a pay deal for nurses.
MOREFurther disruption to tens of thousands of patients has been averted — for now — after the nursing unions agreed to call off strikes and put a Labour Court recommendation on pay and staffing to its members for a ballot.
MOREThe Psychiatric Nurses Association has suspended its planned industrial action, following a Labour Court hearing this evening.
MOREMarathon talks continue at the Labour Court tonight, aimed at ending the nurses dispute with the Government over pay and working conditions.
MORETalks will get underway again at the Labour Court this morning in an attempt to find a breakthrough in the nurses dispute.
MORETalks between the Psychiatric Nurses Association(PNA) and HSE bosses have ended for the night.
MOREThree days of action are due this coming week and demonstrators gathered in Dublin city centre on Saturday.
MOREA national rally is taking place today as INMO nurses prepare to enter a third week of strike action for better pay.
MOREA day of discussions between unions, the HSE and government officials at the Labour Court has concluded this evening.
MOREThe Psychiatric Nurses Association (PNA) has announced it will hold three additional days of strike action in the coming weeks.
MOREWith up to a quarter of a million people potentially affected by the nurses' dispute, someone is “going to fall through the cracks”, patient advocate, Stephen McMahon has warned.
MOREThe Labour Court is to examine the nurses strike this morning, in an effort to avert widespread disruption to the health service next week.
MOREA Cork GP has told of how she had to get a private scan for her father after two public scans were cancelled last week. He was subsequently diagnosed with lung cancer.
MOREIt is expected that the Labour Court will review the nurses' strike tomorrow in an effort to avert widespread disruption to the health service next week.
MORE"What struck me were the chants that I heard (from the picket lines) proclaiming the need for safe staffing, while the key staff essential for running the services in the building behind them are outside on the picket line," said Minister Harris.
MOREThe Government has been called on to "do the right thing" and engage with striking nurses without preconditions.
MOREBrid Shine, a bereavement midwife at the Coombe Hospital, says the strike is about much more than pay.
MORENurses and midwives in Cork say they are prepared to escalate their action until the government is willing to talk about pay and conditions.
MOREThe Government has been told to "do the right thing" and engage without preconditions with striking nurses.
MOREMore than 25,000 medical appointments have been cancelled today, as nurses take to the picket lines for a third day.
MOREThe failure of the Labour Court to make any formal intervention in the nurses’ dispute with the Government to prevent them taking strike action in the first place is worrying, particularly in light of the overtime ban by psychiatric nurses and yesterday’s protest by 500 general practitioners.
MOREThe HSE says that talks are ongoing with the INMO to explore if arrangements can be made to allow for major surgeries, including cancer procedures, during tomorrow's nurses' strike.
MOREThe impact on tens of thousands of patients of escalating unrest in the health service continues today with members of the public asked not to use out of hours GP services as hundreds of family doctors gather in Dublin for a protest.
MORETaoiseach Leo Varadkar has been accused of disrespecting nurses and patients by issuing “cynical” press releases instead of directly engaging with unions.
MORESean O’Riordan says nurses are right to make their voices heard after enduring substandard wages and conditions for far too long.
MORESome nurses would get pay increases of 40% next year if the government gave in to their demands.
MOREThe Taoiseach has been accused of disrespecting nurses and patients by issuing "cynical" press releases instead of directly engaging with unions.
MOREThe ratcheting up of pressure on the Health Minister Simon Harris continues as nurses return in force to the picket line today and criticism of the runaway costs of the new children’s hospital continues.
MOREHealth Minister Simon Harris has said revised terms inquiring into the spiralling costs for the National Children’s Hospital will include any recommendations on how to reduce the final bill.
MOREINMO branch chief says strike ‘shows things haven’t changed much’ since 1999 dispute, writes Tia Clarke.
MOREThe Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) has accused the Government of a “cynical” attempt to break their strike action after two ministers urged nurses to meet for fresh talks — on any issue except pay.
MOREA ‘productivity award’ independent and in addition to the ‘wage award’ in public sector pay talks could offer a means of resolving the current row, writes Anthony Leddin.
MOREUpdate: The INMO’s second day of strike action begins tomorrow at 8am saying they have received "no proposal" to resolve the issue.
MOREThe Irish Nurses and Midwives’ Organisation (INMO) has said nurses must be prepared “to dig in for the long haul”, ahead of two further days of strikes this week.
MOREThe Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation announced two additional strike dates yesterday.
MOREMore than 30,000 nurses took to picket lines last week.
MOREThe nurses’ strike is about so much more than our nurses, writes Joyce Feegan.
MOREIndustrial action by nurses is set to intensify in the weeks ahead as the stalemate continues.
MORELatest: The INMO Executive Council is meeting tomorrow to discuss further industrial action on top of the five days already announced.
MOREMinisters have cautioned against punishing striking nurses with a “stick” approach by docking pay and instead suggested alternative ways to end work stoppages.
MORETánaiste Simon Coveney has confirmed that the Government is taking legal advice as to how sanctions may be used against striking nurses, including docking their pay.
MOREA health systems expert says that the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) needs to clarify what exactly they are looking for, and that the Department of Health is “actively misleading” the public with the figures it is publishing on nursing pay rates.
MOREUpdate 10.15am: 6,000 members of the Psychiatric Nurses Association (PNA) will refuse to work overtime today and tomorrow in their dispute over pay and staffing.
MOREStriking nurses could see salary rises and pension increases under the existing pay deal frozen and blocked if they don’t call off their all-out strike.
MORELatest: Patients who have had their medical appointments cancelled today are being urged not to make contact with hospitals to reschedule.
MOREAny escalation of the nurses’ strike could compromise patient safety, the head of medicine at one of the country’s busiest hospitals has warned.
MORETeas, coffees, soup, even a bunch of flowers from a supportive member of the public - nurses on the picket line were at the receiving end of the TLC they’re more used to doling out.
MOREA young nurse who graduated less than two years ago has seen ten of her classmates emigrate to Australia in the last month.
MOREStriking nurses outside Connolly Hospital in Dublin got a lot of support from motorists travelling on the busy Navan Road.
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