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Talks between the Health Service Executive and health sector unions over proposed job cuts and savings in the west adjourned on Tuesday after seven-and-a-half hours.

SIPTU members in HSE West are to be balloted for industrial action following the failure of management to engage in discussions over threatened job cuts. The union’s senior health organiser, Paul Bell, stated it was necessary to hold a protective strike ballot in case management decides to act unilaterally and implement the sort of cuts being leaked to the media in recent days.

Nurses at the Bon Secours Hospital in Renmore staged a lunchtime protest yesterday (Wednesday) to highlight what they claim is their employer’s decision to renege on a pay agreement brokered earlier this year.

The new Minister of State with responsibility for public sector reform Dara Calleary TD has welcomed the agreement reached with public service unions this week. However, his jubilation may be short lived.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation and SIPTU have served notice of full strike action at Aut Even Private Hospital, which is part of the Mount Carmel Group on Monday, March, 22.

More than 100 nurses staged a lunchtime demonstration outside University Hospital Galway on Monday in protest over the fact that a shorter working week - due to be put in place in June - has not been implemented at UHG and Merlin Park hospitals.

It is the “little people” not the management of Galway Aiport who will suffer, says SIPTU, who have threatened to take industrial action after next Wednesday in response to reduction in working hours. Management have insisted that they have done everything they could to safeguard jobs and the airport’s future growth.

The HSE warned staff at Portiuncula Hospital this week that services will be curtailed and jobs put at risk if industrial action threatened by the Irish Nurses Organisation goes ahead.

In a move to highlight the growing dispute between senior nurse managers and the HSE, staff at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe staged another lunchtime protest yesterday (Thursday).

The HSE is calling on the Irish Nurses Organisation to withdraw a motion of no confidence in senior management at Portiuncula Hospital, following what they are calling the ‘breakdown’ of Labour Relation Commission talks on Wednesday.