Ambulance service staff who have engaged in a series of strikes in recent weeks over union representation rights have said they are prepared to escalate their action. Members of the National Ambulance Service Representative Association (Nasra) staged a work stoppage on Tuesday from 7am to 5pm as part of the campaign. It was their fifth day of strike action this year and another is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, April 10th. Nasra, a branch of the Psychiatric Nurses Association (PNA), says it has about 500 members in the HSE’s National Ambulance Service. “Recognition of other associations or unions would undermine the positive engagement that exists and would impair good industrial relations in the National Ambulance Service,” the HSE said.

Source: The Irish Times April 02, 2019 19:41 UTC