The F\u00f3rsa trade union has confirmed that planned industrial action by perfusionists next week has been paused.<\/p>\n
A dispute over the implementation of Labour Court Recommendation led to strike action at five hospital sites earlier this week.<\/p>\n
Last Tuesday, cardiac surgeries in five hospitals were cancelled due to the strike by 25 perfusionists, who are members of the F\u00f3rsa trade union.<\/p>\n
Perfusionists are cardiovascular specialists who manage the machines that temporarily take over the work of the heart and lungs during surgery.<\/p>\n
F\u00f3rsa has accused the Health Service Executive of taking a unilateral decision to break a long-standing pay link between perfusionists and medical scientists.<\/p>\n
The union has also said that the HSE has refused to implement a Labour Court recommendation to restore that link, issued in January this year.<\/p>\n
According to F\u00f3rsa, last Tuesday’s 24-hour strike led to the cancellation of 14 cardiac surgeries, including two paediatric cases.<\/p>\n
F\u00f3rsa said that planned action on Tuesday, 16 June, and Wednesday, 17 June, has now been paused following contact from the HSE late yesterday.<\/p>\n
F\u00f3rsa said the HSE has confirmed that the Labour Court recommendation will be included on the agenda for forthcoming discussions on a successor public service pay agreement, on the basis that all industrial action is paused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The F\u00f3rsa trade union has confirmed that planned industrial action by perfusionists next week has been paused. A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-636667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}