Angry nurses ‘to give Labour Court last chance’

NURSES said yesterday they would give the Labour Court a last chance to deal with their pay claim before they considered the “nuclear option” of industrial action.

Both the Irish Nurses’ Organisation (INO) and the Psychiatric Nurses’ Association (PNA) said their members were furious that benchmarking had failed to grant any pay increase to the majority of nurses.

Nurses were the only group it found to be outside the terms of reference of the Public Service Benchmarking Body.