Efforts Underway At The Workplace Relations Commission To Resolve Health Workers' Pay Row
Yesterday's strike by over 1,000 support staff in Cork caused huge disruption across the health service.
The union representing 10 thousand health workers says it can't resolve a pay dispute on its own.
SIPTU's sitting down with government officials at the Workplace Relations Commission today to try and hammer out a deal.
Yesterday's strike by over 1,000 support staff in Cork caused huge disruption across the health service.
Thousands of appointments and surgeries were cancelled yesterday and the action is expected to result in significant overcrowding in Emergency Departments for the rest of the week.
Three more days of industrial action are due to go ahead next week if there's no breakthrough.
SIPTU's Paul Bell says he hopes that next weeks threatened action can be averted
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