Health workers to rally for better services and jobs
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A major rally will be held outside of the Department of Health in Dublin on Thursday, 30th April, as part of the SIPTU Health Division campaign for greater investment in healthcare services and workers. The rally will be staged outside the Department at 2.30 p.m. with registration for the SIPTU Health workers attending beginning at Liberty Hall at 1.30 p.m.
SIPTU Health Division Organiser, Paul Bell, said: “Front line health care workers have put their shoulders to the wheel and against the odds kept the health service going for the last seven years. During that same period they have endured pay cuts, pension levies, universal social charges and other reductions."
He added: “If we want quality publicly funded health services we need to start investing in them. Seven years of cuts has led to more work and less pay for health care workers and spiraling for-profit agency costs. Quality health services need motivated front line staff that give patients the care they deserve.”
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