Cork and Kerry disability care workers among those to be balloted for strike action

Members of Siptu, Fórsa and the INMO take part in a lunchtime protest at St Finbarr's Hospital, Cork, last October. Picture: Dan Linehan

Up to 5,000 workers at 21 organisations such as Cheshire Ireland and Rehab Group are being balloted for strike action, trade union Siptu said on Friday. 

This follows the failure of the Government to honour a pay deal reached last October before the Workplace Relations Commission, the union said.