500 ambulance personnel are picketing at locations across the country today in a dispute over union recognition.

Around 500 ambulance service personnel who are members of the Psychiatric Nurses Association will go on strike tomorrow as part of an ongoing dispute over trade union representation rights.

Members of the personnel branch of the Psychiatric Nurses Association (PNA) are to hold the work stoppages on Friday, February 15, Thursday, February 28 and Friday, March 1.