Nurses warn: feel our wrath if pay rise held

HEALTH service employers were warned yesterday that they will feel the full force of nurses’ wrath if they carry through a threat to withhold a 3.5% pay increase due on June 1.

Irish Nurses Organisation (INO) deputy secretary general Dave Hughes said that employers would “feel the full wrath of nurses” and did not rule out taking industrial action.

His comments were met with thunderous applause and a standing ovation by delegates at the union’s annual conference in Killarney, who voted unanimously to initiate “whatever action is necessary” to ensure all pay increases are paid on time.