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  • HSE: Unite serves notice of industrial action over staffing crisis

    Unite, which represents a range of grades across the Health Services Executive (HSE), said today (Monday) that it has served notice of industrial action over the staffing crisis resulting from the HSE’s ‘Pay and Numbers Strategy.’ Last year it emerged that, despite the HSE’s claim that a recruitment ban had ended, vacancies are being benchmarked…

  • Conference of migrant Health Care Assistants hears calls for family reunification

    Unite pledges support to HCA campaign for respect October 21st: The first national conference of migrant health care assistants (HCAs) took place in Unite’s Dublin office over the weekend. The conference, which was organised by Migrant Nurses Ireland (MNI), heard from migrant HCAs who are unable to bring their families to live with them due…

  • Northern Ireland Health and Social Care workers strike for improved pay

    Massive 87 per cent average vote for strike action across Northern Ireland trusts 4000 Unite members to strike on 26 January, February 16 ,17 and 23, 24. Unite the union has confirmed that its members working across the health and social care sector in Northern Ireland will be participating in an industrial campaign involving all…

  • Unite ballots 4,000 Health and Social care workers for strike in early 2023

    Healthcare staff warn NHS on life support and may not survive staffing crisis Nearly 4,000 more health and social care workers across Northern Ireland have begun balloting for strike action, Unite, which represents some 100,000 NHS workers across the UK, said today. Unite said its healthcare members are warning the NHS is on ‘life support’ and that without serious investment to stem the…

  • Draft Government Programme considers applause and platitudes good enough for workers

    June 19th: Unite, which represents workers in all sectors throughout Ireland, has said that the draft programme for government negotiated by Fine Gael, Fianna Fail and the Green Party would see Ireland continuing to be run in a manner that puts private interests above the public good.  In a statement issued today (Friday), the union’s Senior…

  • Covid-19: Dept of Health and HSE ignored warnings on nursing homes

    Impending crisis apparent over a month ago April 21st: Unite, which represents a cross-range of workers in the health sector  including in nursing homes and in the community, today (Tuesday) accused the Department of Health and the HSE of ignoring unions’ warnings regarding the impending crisis in nursing homes, which are seeing a growing number…