Colm Mullan Workers Party Representative for Downpatrick has called on the Executive to ensure health service staff get their pay uplift without having to take industrial action again this year.

Mr Mullan said it is ridiculous that hard working health care workers are constantly having to take protest action and industrial action including strike action to get their pay increases. They were promised that pay parity would be maintained, yet, nothing is forthcoming, last year the health minister was allowed to use funding for this financial year to settle the pay dispute. Leaving the health budget with a huge budget deficit for the 2026 financial year, and we are now in a situation that the widely heralded three year budget has not been agreed by the Executive parties, this is yet another broken promise to staff, who are already demoralised by the conditions they are forced to endure while trying to deliver even the most minimal standards of care.

Colm Mullan Workers Party Representative for Downpatrick has called on the Executive to ensure health service staff get their pay uplift without having to take industrial action again this year.

Source

You might also wanna read

Doctors vote to take strike action in row over pay

NHS Consultants Threaten Strikes as Union Demands £166,000 Pay and Shorter Working Week

Finnish Deputy Ombudsman warns healthcare fee hikes threaten fundamental rights and may worsen health inequalities

Some health workers in Congo's Ebola outbreak go on strike over pay issues as deaths near 600

Federal politics live blog: NSW health minister criticises Albanese government over hospital bed backlog; PM concerned about Middle East strikes

A&E to remain open as doctors' strike called off

Comments