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Friday 23 October 2020
Members of the INMO voted 62% in favour of accepting the proposals.
A number of people wrote to Leo Varadkar during last month’s strike.
The negotiations come after nurses went on general strike for a number of days last month.
A ballot of INMO members will be held between 11 and 25 March.
This evening’s Labour Court recommendation includes a number of proposals.
A group of protesters gathered outside Harris’ home in Co Wicklow yesterday afternoon.
A formal hearing will take place at 3.30pm.
The anti-government protesters left the scene peacefully after gardaí arrived.
About 37,000 INMO members are engaging in strike action over pay and staffing levels.
The strike is set to enter its third week as supporters gather at the Garden of Remembrance this afternoon.
Talks broke up this evening with no commitments for the nurses to call off the action.
Until now, the PNA had only participated in an overtime ban.
This comes after nearly 40,000 INMO nurses and midwives took part in industrial action on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the HSE has said that 50,000 patients will be affected this week.
Nurses across the country will be out on the picket lines outside hospitals and clinics today for the second day of strike action.
Rightly or wrongly, valuable jobs do not automatically mean good pay or conditions.
Nurses and midwives held their first 24 hours of a full strike on Wednesday this week.
Fianna Fáil’s deputy leader Dara Calleary said there “is no sense of leadership” from the Taoiseach.
All the ways you can support nurses, from a simple beep of your horn to bringing them lunch.
The nurses have gone on strike over what they call a recruitment and retention issue in the healthcare sector.
The 24-hour stoppage looks likely to go ahead after Labour Court talks ended without agreement last night.
The action will begin at 8am on Wednesday and finish at 8am on Thursday.
Minister Paschal Donohoe issued a warning earlier today over reaching a pay deal with nurses.
The 24-hour strike on 30 January was announced earlier this week.
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation have announced a 24-hour strike for 30 January.
They have voted in favour of action up to and including the complete withdrawal of labour.
Nurses in emergency departments will now be balloted on revised proposals.
Last minute negotiations have seen strike action averted.
INMO members will be balloted on a new set of proposals.
US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump and former vice president Joe Biden took part in another debate last night, the final head-to-head before voting on 3 November.
The previous debate was fractious and almost unwatchable as the pair shouted over each other, but last night was more measured by comparison.
Trump denied being racist, saying no US president since Abraham Lincoln has “done what I’ve done for the black community”. Biden then said Trump “pours fuel on every single racist fire” and claimed he “has a dog whistle about as big as a fog horn”.
You can catch up on the main points here.
Did you stay up to watch the debate, or catch highlights this morning?
If you did, we want to know: Who won last night’s US election debate?
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