Nurses react to HSE withholding pay increases
A fresh row has broken out between the Health Service Executive (HSE) and the Irish Nurses Organisation (INO) over the pay increase due to nurses under Sustaining Progress.
The HSE is withholding the increase because they claim the INO has breached benchmarking agreements by not co-operating with a new health care assistant grade.
However, INO spokesman Dave Hughes said: “This is a spurious charge and a trumped-up charge really, which is in retaliation for the `campaign we have had – the “Enough is Enough” campaign against overcrowding in the A&E departments.
“There is no basis for them to make that charge, but they are simply are using this to get back at the nurses."
