Support for INO and PNA Members

We are appalled at the recent threat from the HSE that over 13\% of wages will be deducted from nurses' salaries if work stoppages are not called off by Friday, 11th May 2007. We are also disgusted by the refusal of the HSE to meet nurses' demands for pay and working hours on par with other health care professionals in Ireland.

We, The Undersigned, demand that the HSE meet the following requests of the INO and the PNA:

(1) The elimination of the anomaly which sees qualified and unqualified Child Care workers paid more than all Staff Nurses and Midwives.

(2) A reduction in the working week for all Nurses and Midwives who work 39 Hours.

(3) Parity of pay with therapeutic grades, with consequential upward adjustment for all managerial grades, with effect from the end of the current sustaining progress agreement.

(4) The introduction, and payment, of a Dublin Weighting Allowance.

(5) A review of premium payments.

(6) The introduction of a preceptorship allowance to the same value as that recommended by the expert group for therapist grades with responsibility for such training.

(7) A review and examination of nursing and midwifery career progression, in the context of the implementation of the Commission on Nursing Report, and the subsequent agreement of 1999 for the creation and filling of Clinical Nurse Specialist and Advanced Nurse Practitioner posts.

(8) Reckonability, for superannuation purposes, of days lost during the nine day nurses dispute of 1999.

We also demand that members of the INO and PNA are not subjected to punitive action (including, but not limited to, the reduction of wages) by the HSE for taking part in the current industrial action. Should such punitive action occur, we demand that all affected members of the INO and PNA be compensated in full.