Hospital support staff vote in favour of strike action

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17,000 health support staff have voted overwhelmingly to take strike action in 36 health care facilities which could get underway by early next month

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17,000 health support staff have voted overwhelmingly to take strike action in 36 health care facilities which could get under way by early next month.

He said they were particularly annoyed in light of the overspends on the National Children's Hospital and the National Broadband Plan, adding that the "little people" would always come last. Potential pay rises for health support grades would undoubtedly increase pressure on the Government's pay bill, which some view as spiralling out of control.

As yet the HSE and the INMO have neither quantified those savings, nor indicated where they will be made. However, at Easter, Minister for Education and Skills Joe McHugh held out the possibility of further pay rises when he acknowledged that there was "unfinished business" on pay inequality, which would be given "full consideration" at either a mid-term review of the PSSA or the negotiations on its successor.

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And Ingrid does it again blaming nurses for cancelled surgeries during the 3 strike days but never blaming the government for the surgeries cancelled EVERY DAY

Lol, the slop them so called chef's pass on to patients as food is a disgrace. They should be sacked, only on Ireland would they be going on strike 🙄

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