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Monday , 9 th July 2018
Ambulance service personnel (members of the National Ambulance Service Representative Association -NASRA) , have voted overwhelmingly for industrial action, up to and including strike action, in protest at the continued refusal of the HSE to facilitate payroll deductions of union subscriptions for new NASRA members. In a ballot conducted nationally over the past two weeks the members voted by nearly 98% in favour of industrial action which will now commence on Tuesday , 24 th July.
Mr Peter Hughes, the General Secretary of the Psychiatric Nurses Association (PNA), of which NASRA is a union branch, said the decisive outcome of the ballot confirmed the level of anger and frustration by NASRA members at having a basic work right to join the union of their choice denied to them.
‘The message to the HSE from this outcome could not be clearer. Ambulance personnel do not accept the arbitrary move taken earlier this year by the HSE to refuse to deduct union subscriptions at source for the growing numbers of ambulance service personnel (including paramedics, advanced paramedics and emergency medical technicians) who wish to join NASRA, and exercise their fundamental right to organise and join the union of their choice.'
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A general meeting of ambulance service personnel (members of the National Ambulance Service Representative Association -NASRA) , has unanimously agreed to ballot for industrial action, up to and including strike action, in response to the continued refusal of the HSE to facilitate payroll deductions of union subscriptions for new NASRA members. The ballot will commence this Friday.
Mr Peter Hughes, the General Secretary of the Psychiatric Nurses Association (PNA), of which NASRA is a union branch, said the decision is a response to the arbitrary move earlier this year by the HSE to refuse to facilitate union payroll deductions for the growing numbers of ambulance service personnel (including paramedics advanced paramedics and emergency medical technicians) who wish to join NASRA, and exercise their fundamental right to organise and join the union of their choice.
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NASRA members turned out in force at the National Ambulance Services Central Payroll H.Q. in Tullamore, Co Offaly to protest at the continued refusal of the HSE to facilitate payroll deductions of union subscriptions for NASRA members.
Tony Gregg, National Secretary of NASRA, said the protest was an expression of the deep frustration and anger among the growing numbers of NASRA members nationally that their fundamental rights to organise and join the union of their choice were being obstructed by the HSE.
Thanks to all NASRA members for their support and solidarity for the protest.
