The High Court will decide tomorrow if it is to continue an injunction against SIPTU, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions officials and employees of a cargo handling company involved in a strike at Dublin port over the alleged harassment and intimidation of staff at the firm who have continued to work.

High Court proceedings against Siptu, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions officials and employees of a cargo handling company involved in a strike at Dublin port over the alleged harassment and intimidation of staff who are continuing to work have been adjourned.

Siptu, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions officials and employees at a company involved in a strike at Dublin port have denied that they have harassed or intimidated staff who are continuing to work.

A cargo handing company involved in an industrial dispute has secured a High Court injunction preventing anyone harassing threatening its employees who have continued to work during the strike.

SIPTU is calling for more accountability in the management structures of the health service.

THE Government’s proposal to take pressure off A&E departments by putting more beds into wards could lead to industrial action, a nurses’ union warned last night.

A new body of experts must be formed to tackle the overcrowding crisis at hospital accident and emergency wards, it was urged today.

SIPTU yesterday called for a total ban on smoking in two psychiatric units attached to general hospitals in Cork city.

A TRADE union official last night stood over his claim that the Health Services Executive (HSE), southern area, was flouting the law by allowing smoking in a hospital unit for which it is responsible.

SIPTU has slammed plans to shed 600 jobs in the health service in the absence of consultation with staff.

NURSES have decided to defer industrial action planned for Tuesday after Health Minister Mary Harney said she expected real progress next month in resolving the accident and emergency crisis.

NURSES are threatening to take industrial action unless Health Minister Mary Harney resolves the A&E crisis.

The crisis in Ireland’s Accident and Emergency wards could be set to escalate after the country’s largest trade union threatened industrial action today.

ACCIDENT and emergency nurses throughout the country are dreading Christmas and the New Year.

Oliver McDonagh, SIPTU's National Nursing Officer, has appealed to the public not to attend Accident and Emergency units this Christmas unless absolutely necessary.

OVERCROWDING at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin reached new levels yesterday when ambulance trolleys had to be used to accommodate patients in the A&E department.

SIPTU has expressed its growing frustration at the unresolved problems of overcrowding in the accident and emergency unit of Dublin’s Beaumont Hospital.

FINANCE MINISTER Charlie McCreevy lashed out at unions yesterday, accusing them of failing to live up to their side of the national wage deal.

SIPTU has revealed that it plans to ballot its nursing members on strike action because of "stressful and intolerable" working conditions.

SIPTU today called for the "two-tier" system of hospital waiting lists to be scrapped.