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04/08/2016
Siptu To Attend Meeting To Attempt To Revert Strike Action In NAS
Union representatives from Siptu are to attend a meeting with Health Service Executive (HSE) management and Department of Health officials today, 04 August, to try to avert strike action in the National Ambulance Service (NAS).
Siptu Health Division Organiser, Paul Bell, said: "Our members have brought solutions to the table from day one. They demand meaningful engagement from their employer and concrete proposals to resolve this dispute once and for all.
"The Department of Health has allowed the ambulance service to drift into the situation where our members will withdraw their labour, apart from emergency cover, from Wednesday, 10 August. The fact that the Minister for Health, Simon Harris, has remained indifferent throughout this dispute is totally unacceptable."
Sinn Fein president, Gerry Adams, said: "The concerns they have raised in the past number of weeks in negotiations with management are genuine and are centred on the failure of the HSE to implement Labour Court recommendations, honour public service pay agreements and adequately resource ambulance services.
"The Minister for Health, Simon Harris and the HSE need to directly intervene immediately, acknowledge the serious issues being raised by ambulance staff and their union representatives, and address the issues at hand without delay."
(CD/JP)
Siptu Health Division Organiser, Paul Bell, said: "Our members have brought solutions to the table from day one. They demand meaningful engagement from their employer and concrete proposals to resolve this dispute once and for all.
"The Department of Health has allowed the ambulance service to drift into the situation where our members will withdraw their labour, apart from emergency cover, from Wednesday, 10 August. The fact that the Minister for Health, Simon Harris, has remained indifferent throughout this dispute is totally unacceptable."
Sinn Fein president, Gerry Adams, said: "The concerns they have raised in the past number of weeks in negotiations with management are genuine and are centred on the failure of the HSE to implement Labour Court recommendations, honour public service pay agreements and adequately resource ambulance services.
"The Minister for Health, Simon Harris and the HSE need to directly intervene immediately, acknowledge the serious issues being raised by ambulance staff and their union representatives, and address the issues at hand without delay."
(CD/JP)
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