The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation and the Psychiatric Nurses Association have served notice of industrial action in the Donegal Intellectual Disability Services, Ard na Gr\u00e9ine in Stranorlar.<\/p>\n
The action, in the form of a work-to-rule, is due to begin on 2 June.<\/p>\n
INMO and PNA members will also stage a lunchtime protest on 27 May.<\/p>\n
Both unions balloted members after the HSE withdrew a proposal to provide 24\/7 on-site management.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the INMO said that for two years, local HSE management promised that robust out-of-hours governance would be reinstated.<\/p>\n
It said, based on a written commitment, nursing staff cooperated with a major reconfiguration of services, including the transfer of vulnerable residents to two new residential houses.<\/p>\n
The INMO and PNA are seeking the restoration of on-site management, which they said was removed without consultation after 2016.<\/p>\n
They are also calling for additional nursing managers to provide clinical authority for service-wide safeguarding.<\/p>\n
INMO Assistant Director of Industrial Relations, Colm Porter, said the decision to take industrial action in Ard na Gr\u00e9ine had not been taken lightly.<\/p>\n
“It is clear that ensuring appropriate governance structures are in place in intellectual disability services must be an immediate priority for the HSE,” he said.<\/p>\n
PNA Industrial Relations Officer, Niall O’Sullivan, said it is unacceptable that “members in Ard na Gr\u00e9ine are operating in a leadership vacuum”.<\/p>\n
“Report after report into intellectual disability services have proved that governance structures cannot be disregarded,” he said.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the HSE said it has been notified by the PNA and INMO of their intention to begin industrial action at Ard na Gr\u00e9ine Court Intellectual Disability Services.<\/p>\n
It said it held talks with both unions over recent months to reach an agreement on the issues, with a further meeting due to take place this week.<\/p>\n
The HSE said it remains committed to engagement with staff and the unions to reach a resolution to the issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation and the Psychiatric Nurses Association have served notice of industrial action in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-447584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}