Hopes fade for deal to avert strike

PUBLIC service unions in Cork have called off their planned strike to continue emergency work in flood devastated areas.

Members of SIPTU,IMPACT and the TEEU moved to defer walk-outs in Cork, in order to aid victims of the floods. Nursing unions have agreed to exclude Cork city hospitals from the day of action.

As well as council workers and electricians, SIPTU hospital support services staff at the Mercy Universe Hospital and St Finbarr’s in Cork will also be working to help deal with the flood crisis.