'The pay gaps are significant': Enable Ireland staff on strike in Cork and Kerry

'Families feel they’re getting no services, and in reality, many are not. There are shortages across the board'

Staff members of Enable Ireland participating in the ICTU Valuing Care Campaign seeking pay parity outside the Lavanagh Centre in Curraheen, Cork. "When people can get paid more doing the same job for the HSE or Section 38 organisations, why would they come, or stay, here?" Picture: Denis Minihane.

Fórsa flags waved from a baby's buggy as workers carrying green picket placards marched on strike outside Enable Ireland in Cork, demanding government pay them the same as other workers in their sector. 

On the third day of national care and community worker strike action this week, some 70 workers were on strike outside Enable Ireland in Curaheen in Cork with more workers on the picket in Kerry, although essential services were maintained in both counties.