Nurses threatened with pay reduction

[lithium]

http://www.rte.ie/aertel/106-01.html

Looks like the HSE are threatening to reduce striking nurses' pay by over 13%. This escalation by the HSE and Government is putting peoples' lives at risk. We really need to get more unions striking and showing support, as well as leftist groups voicing their support too.

[Qwerty Dvorak]

Originally posted by [email protected] 08, 2007 05:46 pm
http://www.rte.ie/aertel/106-01.html

Looks like the HSE are threatening to reduce striking nurses' pay by over 13%. This escalation by the HSE and Government is putting peoples' lives at risk. We really need to get more unions striking and showing support, as well as leftist groups voicing their support too.
I agree, if this was taking place a few weeks later I'd be up in Dublin trying to organize something myself but unfortunately I'm stuck in Wexford studying for LC. Is there anything that can be done online, even? Like petitions, emails etc.?

[lithium]

I'm in a similar situation: my final year exams start very soon and I'm up to my eyeballs in work. For now a petition might be a good idea to get started, then other stuff could be organised in the next few weeks.

[lithium]

Ok, this is the petition I have written so far. Any ideas or suggestions from anyone before I post it?

Dear Minister Harney, TD,

We are appalled at the recent threat from the HSE that over 13% of wages will be deducted from nurses' salaries if work stoppages are not called off by Friday, 11th May 2007. We are also disgusted by the refusal of the HSE to meet nurses' demands for pay and working hours on par with other health care professionals in Ireland.

We, The Undersigned, demand that the HSE meet the following requests of the INO and the PNA:

(1) The elimination of the anomaly which sees qualified and unqualified Child Care workers paid more than all Staff Nurses and Midwives.

(2) A reduction in the working week for all Nurses and Midwives who work 39 Hours.

(3) Parity of pay with therapeutic grades, with consequential upward adjustment for all managerial grades, with effect from the end of the current sustaining progress agreement.

(4) The introduction, and payment, of a Dublin Weighting Allowance.

(5) A review of premium payments.

(6) The introduction of a preceptorship allowance to the same value as that recommended by the expert group for therapist grades with responsibility for such training.

(7) A review and examination of nursing and midwifery career progression, in the context of the implementation of the Commission on Nursing Report, and the subsequent agreement of 1999 for the creation and filling of Clinical Nurse Specialist and Advanced Nurse Practitioner posts.

(8) Reckonability, for superannuation purposes, of days lost during the nine day nurses dispute of 1999.

Sincerely, The Undersigned

[lithium]

UPDATE: I've added a small section on punitive measures against the unions and published the petition at:

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/inopna/petition.html

Please sign it!