Independent Workers Union - your havin a laugh

www.union.ie, Independent workers Union
Universi, the Health Workers Branch of the IWU will stage a lunch time protest this Monday, the 14th December, 1.30pm sharp outside Fairview. (Opposite the Mater Hospital).
Our union continues to grow and many of our members from the catering and administration are experiencing the worst ever attack on the terms and conditions of their employment.
The Trust plans to introduce prepared chilled meals for elderly patients, suffering a range of mental health problems. Not only will this replace the long standing practice of freshly cooked meals on site, there is a plan to contract this service out to a private company. This will not only impact on the quality of food served to patients, it will impact greatly on staff jobs, terms and conditions of their employment.
Administration staffing has been cut over the past number of weeks, resulting in patients and the public being unable to get through to our services. Not only have jobs been lost, but the cuts to admin staffing impacts adversely on patient care.

Note that the catering and admin staff are the most vulnerable workers. They are banded from 1 3 on the pay scale. We must ask why are management starting the cuts at the bottom of the pay scale? We must ask why dont they cut the top heavy management structure? Think of how many catering and admin staff they could employ if well paid management posts were restructured.

In the meantime existing posts in the mental health services have not been replaced and staff in mental health services are over worked and exhausted with responsibility to deliver mental health services in the most socially and economically deprived area in Western Europe.

Remember if these outrageous cuts go unchallenged they will move to the next layers of workers with confidence and your job could be on the line.
This union will challenge the ongoing attack on patient and workers rights.

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[VeraLynnLies]

dead on

[Mark999999999]

Excellent!

[redstarjul26]

Great Video

[cobrolchain2]

Twisted video, not quite as twisted as the health service though.