Gardaí called to nursing home row

GARDAI had to intervene yesterday morning as new employees of a nursing home were heckled as they tried to cross a picket line.

Two non-nationals and an Irish woman employed at the Springvalley Nursing Home in Enniscorthy in Wexford were escorted into their new workplace by the home’s director of nursing after gardaí were called.

Thirty four SIPTU workers at the private nursing home walked off the job on August 28 in a row over pay and conditions. The kitchen, housekeeping, cleaning and care attendants were further infuriated to find their jobs advertised in the local media just before the weekend.