Abstract

Junior doctors in the Republic of Ireland are planning a day of strike action in hospitals this month in the latest escalation of a row with the government over “dangerously long” working hours. The Irish Medical Organisation has called a one day national strike on 25 September, after 97% of the roughly 1000 non-consultant hospital doctors who voted in a ballot agreed to take industrial action up to and including strike action. The union plans to then hold one day strikes in at least one hospital in each region in the country every week from 30 September to force the Health Service Executive to deal with the issue of working hours, which the union says are currently “illegal and dangerously long.” The executive has now referred …

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