This morning/afternoon.
Naas hospital, County Kildare.
National Ambulance Service (NAS) workers who are members of the Psychiatric Nurses Association (PNA) ambulance branch NASRA – are staging a a ten-hour strike at hospitals across the country.
The PNA has warned that it may stage more ambulance strikes if the Health Service Executive does not engage on its right to represent members.
The dispute centres on the Health Services’s refusal to recognise the PNA…
…The HSE said that recognising yet another union would impair good industrial relations within the National Ambulance Service
PNA warns of more strikes if HSE does not engage over union recognition (RTÉ)
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Nothing like a good old 1970s style inter union fight to inconvenience the public.
Oh shut your hole. :-(
“…The HSE said that recognising yet another union would impair good industrial relations within the National Ambulance Service”
Are the workers not entitled to decide which union represents them?
Of course, but an employer is also entitled to decide which union it is that they want to talk to.
Except the HSE *have* been effectively recognising the union. They were collecting subs and passing them on via the payroll, according to the rep on Morning Ireland today. The HSE appear to have taken a unilateral decision to cease this arrangement.
People striking for this