Health

Nurses deserve support in strike for standards – Dignam

Workers' Party Dublin North West representative Jimmy Dignam has offered his full support to nurses at Beaumont Hospital who have announced industrial action in response to unsafe staffing levels at the hospital. Speaking to activists in his constituency, Dignam said, 'The fact that 99% of Irish Nurses & Midwives’ Organisation’s members in the medical and [...]

2016-01-02T23:36:50+00:00November 25th, 2015|

WP demands equality for nursing and midwifery interns

The Workers' Party expresses its strong support for the campaign of student nurses and midwives to win equality of treatment from the HSE for final year students who perform the same work as qualified staff as part of their final year "internship" programme.   Final year student nurses and midwives are required, as part of [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:58+00:00October 15th, 2015|

Budget benefits the better off – again

The Workers’ Party have condemned today’s budget as one which has benefitted the better off once again while throwing a few crumbs at workers and the poor with a focus on the general election rather than social justice. Workers’ Party President Michael Donnelly said that for all the hype on the 75% Christmas Bonus for [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:58+00:00October 13th, 2015|

Action, not lip service needed on hospital crisis

Workers’ Party councillor Ted Tynan has said that it is time to replace two decades of lip-service on hospital overcrowding with immediate action to  end the scandal of sick patients lying on trolleys in hospital corridors and wards.   Cllr. Tynan said that the hospital trolley crisis, like the Winter Vomiting bug, had become an [...]

2015-01-06T11:22:29+00:00January 6th, 2015|

WP support Peoples’ NHS NI campaign

WP North Belfast party reps Chris Bailie and Gemma Weir show their solidarity Workers Party North Belfast representatives Gemma Weir and Chris Bailie braved the cold this week to call with Party members and supporters in the Kansas Avenue / Cedar Avenue area of North Belfast encouraging them to support the ‘People’s NHSni’ [...]

2019-05-19T10:01:04+00:00December 11th, 2014|