INMO, FORSA, Connect, Unite, MLSA
Speaking following a meeting with the Chief Executive Officer of the Health Service Executive, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, Fórsa, Connect, Unite, and the MLSA have expressed disappointment with the HSE’s cavalier attitude to a dispute that is due to begin in the form of a work-to-rule by over 80,000 workers in the public health service next Monday (March 31st 2025).
A spokesperson on behalf of unions involved in the dispute said:
Despite asking trade unions to meet this morning in a bid to explore options for avoiding planned action, the Health Service Executive is demonstrating a lax approach to upcoming industrial action which is to begin next Monday. Unions have given the employer over three weeks’ notice to plan around what will be mass disruption to the health service, yet no formal derogations have been sought by the employer or no real contingency planning has been done.
The fact of the matter is this dispute will begin next Monday. The HSE have not taken this process seriously and have chosen to walk away before matters can be dealt with.
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