Workers vote to strike if job and wage cuts proceed

HEALTH service and local government workers have voted to strike if the Government makes any attempt to cut their pay or numbers as part of the economic recovery efforts.

The workers, members of the IMPACT trade union, made the decision at their national delegate conferences in Castlebar yesterday morning.

Rank and file members of the union made it clear they would not accept any diminution of their terms and conditions in order to prop up an economy suffering due to the action of others.