Public service unions to hold mass gathering

PUBLIC service staff are to hold a mass meeting later this month to discuss their ongoing industrial action in protest at the pay cuts announced in the last budget.

The meeting at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology in Galway on February 23, will be the first major gathering since almost 300,000 public servants began their action in a number of workplaces last month.

It will be addressed by a number of senior figures in the trade union movement, including the head of the Irish Nursing and Midwives Organisation, Liam Doran, Shay Cody of IMPACT, and SIPTU and current Irish Congress of Trade Unions president Jack O’Connor.