Health services in Tipperary and across the country look set to be hit by industrial action from next week.
FORSA, the INMO, Connect and Unite the Union will be stepping up their campaign in a dispute over staffing numbers.
Up to 6,500 psychiatric nurses have begun engaging in a work to rule from this morning.
The other unions will commence a similar action from next Monday
FORSA activist and frontline health worker Dean McGrath told Tipp Today earlier that HSE personnel have been making up a significant shortfall in numbers.
“Thousands of vacant posts were decommissioned in 2024 so with the stroke of a pen any post vacant was supressed despite being needed to provide patient services.
“We’ve gone above and beyond in terms of union members doing two and three jobs to make the service function. We’re not going to stand for our members putting up with that. All health unions – over 80,000 workers – have told HSE management that this is unsafe practice.”
