Nurses stage third picket over safety fears

NURSES at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick yesterday staged a third walkout over what they claimed were dangerously overcrowded conditions in the emergency department (ED) as a union leader insisted they were not for turning on the issue.

Nurses stage third picket over safety fears
Wed, 05 Oct, 2011 - 01:00
Jimmy Woulfe, Mid-West Correspondent

Over 80 nurses took part in the four-hour stoppage.

Union colleagues attending a SIPTU conference in Ennis joined in the protest.

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