{"id":641529,"date":"2026-10-09T19:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T19:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/641529\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T19:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T19:52:11","slug":"ni-healthcare-workers-at-tipping-point-as-union-ballots-for-industrial-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/641529\/","title":{"rendered":"NI healthcare workers at &#8216;tipping point&#8217; as union ballots for industrial action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nipsa has been holding meetings with members working across the health service and said they had given a clear message over their frustrations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In its letter to healthcare members, Nipsa said workers should &#8220;not have to face increasing workloads, unsafe staffing levels, threat to jobs and continued cuts to vital services&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The union said it was now progressing legal steps to hold the ballot, which will run from 21 October and close next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our members are telling us they have had enough of being asked to do more with less while services are cut, staff go unrecognised and pay issues remain unresolved,&#8221; Kelly said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added that workers are still waiting for the 2026-27 pay award, with many low-paid staff waiting for the Real Living Wage. He said there remains ongoing frustration around pay reform parity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nipsa has been holding meetings with members working across the health service and said they had given a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":["post-641529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}