INMO Head Warns Health Minister Not To Take Nurses For Granted
The organisation is seeking 10 extra holiday days for its members who have been battling the COVID crisis over the past year
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has referred a dispute over extra holiday days to the Workplace Relations Commission.
The union is seeking the extra leave saying health staff are exhausted after a year fighting COVID-19.
General Secretary of the INMO Phil Ni Sheaghdha addressed the Health Minister Stephen Donnelly directly at the union's delegate conference this morning:
"We expected today, and we are disappointed, that the Minister for Health in sincerly, and I think it a sincere sentiment of gratitude, but that that was not practically applicable. You have to take back to your cabinet colleagues, the fact that, goodwill, as the President has outlined, cannot and must not be taken for granted."
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