The INMO’s Midwest representative is urging the government to engage in meaningful discussions now to avert an all-out nursing strike next year.
A ballot of the 40,000 Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation members saw them vote by a decisive 95% in favour of strike action in the ongoing row over pay and staff retention.
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The union says these issues are risking patient safety and contributing to overcrowding at the country’s hospitals, while the executive will meet next month to set dates for a series of 24-hour stoppages.
Mary Fogarty says it’s not a decision they came to lightly:
