Ongoing dispute with HSE management centres on trade union representation rights
is a branch of the Psychiatric Nurses’ Association which the HSE does not recognise as a representative body for ambulance personnel.
The strikes this week which involve various grades of ambulance personnel including including paramedics, advanced paramedics and emergency medical technicians) will run from 7am to 5pm on Thursday and Friday. The PNA said the consecutive two day strike action on Thursday and Friday represented “ a further escalation of the campaign by ambulance personnel in demand of their right to be represented by the union of their choice, and not by a trade union that the HSE wants to force them to join”.
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