Nurses and Teachers call for strike action (Ireland)

[Coggeh]

NURSES HAVE voted by a margin of more than four to one in favour of taking industrial action against further pay cuts.The INO and Impact have both called for strike action after the INO balleted 4 to 1 in favour with Impact to ballot their members later this week .

Also the INTO (Irish national teachers organisation) have called for industrial action along with ASTI(Association of secondary school teachers ireland) and the TUI(Teachers Union Ireland) are all balloting and look likely to call for a strike in responce to the savage cutbacks that are going to hit public service workers and services such as child benefit , social welfare allowance,housing , health and of course education .

Teachers: http://www.independent.ie/national-news/three-unions-good-at-marshalling-their-troops-1935873.html

Nurses: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/1110/1224258481123.html

[The Deepest Red]

NURSES HAVE voted by a margin of more than four to one in favour of taking industrial action against further pay cuts.The INO and Impact have both called for strike action after the INO balleted 4 to 1 in favour with Impact to ballot their members later this week .

Also the INTO (Irish national teachers organisation) have called for industrial action along with ASTI(Association of secondary school teachers ireland) and the TUI(Teachers Union Ireland) are all balloting and look likely to call for a strike in responce to the savage cutbacks that are going to hit public service workers and services such as child benefit , social welfare allowance,housing , health and of course education .

Teachers: http://www.independent.ie/national-news/three-unions-good-at-marshalling-their-troops-1935873.html

Nurses: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/1110/1224258481123.html

Will they be striking on the 24th?

[Patchd]

Will the strike action be indefinite or have the workers not been balloted yet?

[Pogue]

Are these particularlly militant sections of the class in Ireland? I find it interesting that healthcare and education are the two areas that radicals have alot of impact and emphasis on in this country at the moment and these are the locations where there will be strikes in Ireland too. Maybe there is some sort of correlation between the two in both Ireland and the UK. I guess alot of it is to do with how nurses are one of the, if not the largest section of the working class, and teachers are big too.

It seems theres quite alot going on in Ireland at the moment from reports we are getting. This suprises me because irish comrades told me your union situation is atrocious, because theres some sort of quasi corporatist model in place where every few years or so the unions consult management on pay and conditions. Is that right? If so it sounds like its a situation that will enable management, and the boss class generally, to have a stranglehold on union activity. It also seems like something the union beurecracy could use against the membership.