Dental staff vote for industrial action over plans to cut hours
The dental school and hospital plans to cut sessions provided by 24 part-time clinical teachers as part of a package of cost-saving measures it is implementing to deal with a cut in funding from the Health Service Executive and Higher Education Authority.
The clinical teachers, who are paid by the session and are members of the Irish Dental Association (IDA), have voted in favour of industrial action if teaching hours are reduced by 23%, a move they claim will also result in the closure of clinics for patients.
