Emergency workers may join picket lines

EMERGENCY service workers will support an escalation of industrial action in the public sector in opposition to wage and service cutbacks.

The 24/7 Frontline Alliance, which represents nurses, gardaí, prison officers and firemen, has warned its members will join other public servants on the picket lines.

Frontline Alliance chairman Des Kavanagh of the Psychiatric Nurses Association said: “The alliance is putting the Government on notice that we will be joining our colleagues in other public sector unions on the picket lines if that is what it takes to make the wealthy in our society pay their fair share.”