Health workers refuse to answer phone calls from public

HEALTH worker members of IMPACT trade union will this morning stop answering phone calls from members of the public as part of the escalation of their campaign against budget pay cuts imposed on the public sector.

The campaign will start in the HSE Dublin/north-east regions this morning, with workers refusing to answer phones for a four-hour period.

The action will then spread to the west of the country tomorrow, to the southern division of the HSE on Thursday and the Dublin/mid-Leinster region on Friday.