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Progress in long-running health dispute

4 October 2008
Members of the IMPACT union working in the health service have suspended their industrial action that began in May when they voted to refuse to cover vacant posts. The union action was prompted by the Health Services Executive (HSE) to impose a recruitment freeze. The union attacked not just the decision but the failure of the HSE to consult over the freeze. IMPACT members will now vote on a proposal to resolve the dispute negotiated by the Labour Relations Commission that includes provisions to ensure that consultation procedures will be followed in the future. Read more at > IMPACT (EN)

Pay negotiations produce 6% offer over 21 months

18 September 2008
The IMPACT public services union is recommending that members accept a pay deal that will give them a 6% increase over the next 21 months although no increase for the first 11 months. Lower paid workers – those on less than €11 an hour – will get an additional 0.5%. The union believes that this is the best deal available in difficult circumstances. Read more at > IMPACT (EN)

Public sector pay increases lagging behind private sector

19 August 2008
Public service union IMPACT reports that public sector pay increases are below those in the private sector. The latest official figures put public sector increases at 3.6% compared to 4% in distribution and business services, 4.4% in industry, 6.3% in the finance sector and 6.4% in construction. The union argues this has become a persistent trend. Read more at > IMPACT (EN)

Unions reject employers’ pay offer as talks break down

5 August 2008
Irish trade unions have rejected the employers’ offer of a 5% pay increase over 21 months in the national, inter-sectoral negotiations. The break down of talks means that with the final increases in the current “Towards 2016” agreement falling due, there is the prospect of workers not being covered by a national agreement for the first time in over 20 years. Trade unions are also unhappy that employers have also refused to discuss improvements in collective bargaining rights and better protection for union members in non-union firms. Read more at > IMPACT (IE)

Union agrees to talks with Health Services Executive

23 June 2008
The IMPACT public sector trade union has agreed to high-level talks with the Health Services Executive (HSE) with the aim of ending the three-week old dispute over a recruitment freeze. However, the union has made it clear that it will continue its industrial action that includes a work-to-rule and overtime ban, until the HSE has made concrete steps to end the freeze. The union also wants the Executive to re-affirms its commitment to 40 other existing agreements working conditions. Read more at > IMPACT (EN)

Union survey reveals impact of health recruitment freeze

6 June 2008
A survey of health and social services in the Mid West of the country has found around 200 posts unfilled as a result of the Health Service Executive’s recruitment freeze. The survey by the IMPACT trade union shows the wide range of services being hit - including primary care, disability services, mental health and care for the elderly. In the biggest vote ever for industrial action 85% of IMPACT members voting supported industrial action over the freeze. Currently members are working to rule with a refusal to do non-emergency overtime or any out-of-hours work. Read more at > IMPACT (EN)

Nurses suspend industrial action

23 May 2008
Trade unions representing psychiatric nurses have suspended their industrial action until they have a chance to ballot their members over a revised package of compensation covering violence at work. The Health Service Executive has extended the original scheme and increased compensation levels. It is also looking at compensation for psychological trauma and once its proposals are known the unions will decide whether to recommend the new scheme to members. Read more at > SIPTU (EN) And at > PNA (EN)

Psychiatric nurses give notice that they will step up industrial action

9 May 2008
Members of the Psychiatric Nurses Association and the SIPTU general union are taking industrial action in protest at the Health Services Executive’s refusal to improve compensation for psychiatric nurses injured as a result of assaults at work. The nurses’ action so far has involved an overtime ban and work-to-rule from 30 April and the next stage is to refuse to co-operate any more with redeployment of nurses from community services to psychiatric and general hospitals. Read more at > SIPTU (EN) And at > PNA (EN)

Union ballots for industrial action over recruitment freeze

23 April 2008
The public service union IMPACT is organising a ballot of its health service membership over industrial action in protest at the Health Service Executive’s (HSE) continuing recruitment freeze. The union criticised the HSE for introducing the policy and won a court ruling that the employers had failed to consult properly over the freeze. IMPACT as warned of the effects on services as the recruitment freeze bites. Read more at > IMPACT (EN)

Union ballots health service members over recruitment freeze

9 April 2008
The Impact public service union is balloting its 28,000 health service members over potential industrial action in protest at a continuing recruitment freeze imposed by the Health Service Executive (HSE). The HSE has persisted with the policy despite criticism in two court judgements that highlighted the HSE’s failure to consult properly with trade unions in line with the “Towards 2016” national agreement. Read more at > Impact (EN)

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