Ambulance staff are planning to stage two further strikes next month s part of a long-running dispute over trade union representation rights.Members of the organisation - which is a branch of the - have already staged strikes on four days so far this year as part of their campaign.
Ambulance staff who are members of Nasra are also to stage a protest outside Leinster House on Wednesday as part of their current campaign. However the HSE does not recognise the PNA or its Nasra branch as a representative body for ambulance personnel.said the staff concerned were pursuing “a fundamental right of workers to be members of the union of their choice”.
“Hundreds of frontline ambulance personnel have made their decision to join PNA since its ambulance branch was established in 2010 and PNA ambulance branch now represents more members by far than at least one of the two unions recognised by the HSE for frontline paramedics. It is unacceptable that the HSE is continuing to attempt to ignore and frustrate the wishes of these frontline staff to be members of the PNA.