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Proposed New Nurse/Midwife Graduate Programme

Proposed New Nurse/Midwife Graduate Programme

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Started by Anonymous 13 years, 5 months ago
Mr Tony O’Brien Director General Designate Health Service Executive Dr Steevens Hospital Dublin 8 Re: Proposed New Nurse/Midwife Graduate Programme Dear Mr O’Brien On behalf of the INMO/PNA we wish to reaffirm we remain fundamentally opposed to the proposed new nurse/midwife graduate programme. This is because we believe it to be an initiative to lower the pay, of the Staff Nurse/Midwife grade, while requiring the new graduate to carry 100% of the responsibility of a registered/regulated professional nurse/midwife while only receiving 80% of the stipulated salary. Furthermore it will add no additional nursing man-hours to our service and it will, inevitably, result in the displacement of excellent staff, currently employed by agencies, as part of the initial phase of the programme. As we have already informed you we are, today, holding a public protest, outside of the headquarters of the HSE in Dr. Steevens Hospital, to mark the 1st February 2013 which is now a second date, for applications, to this flawed and unfair initiative. The INMO/PNA also wish to reaffirm that our call for the boycott of the programme, by 2010/2011/2012 graduates remains firmly in place and will not be lifted. It is self-evident that a low pay “graduate” programme that seeks to target professionals, with up to two years experience, is nothing other than an attempt at exploitation. The INMO/PNA also wish to restate that we remain available for discussions with regard to finding other ways, of saving money, which will reduce extraneous expenditure, on agency employment, while still protecting the proper and agreed, salary scale for the staff nurse/midwife. Against this background we call upon the HSE to suspend the proposed graduate programme, in its current format, and to enter into discussions, with the INMO/PNA, to see how, recognising that €10 million savings must be made, a revised programme can be agreed which respects the value of the new graduate nurse/ midwife and the financial challenges of the HSE. We await hearing from you in due course. However we stress, in the interim, our call for a boycott remains in place and our outright opposition to this low paid programme remains absolute. Yours sincerely LIAM DORAN General Secretary INMO


SEAMUS MURPHY Deputy General SecretaryPNA

On behalf of:

Updates

February 1, 2013

Hit one thousand signatures and I am honestly reeling because this started as just a small thought about how unfair the pay cuts are for our new graduates. Seeing everyone agree that this is exploitation makes me feel so much better about standing out there at the protest today even though the weather is freezing.

Reached 1,000 supporters

January 31, 2013

January 30, 2013

The emails just keep piling up and honestly it is wild to see how many people are seeing right through the language about this being some kind of initiative when it is just blatant pay cutting. I am exhausted from chasing down people at the HSE but we are not backing down on the boycott because putting the full burden of care on someone while shaving off their pay is just wrong especially with the agency staff getting pushed out the door.

Reached 100 supporters

January 30, 2013

January 28, 2013

The numbers are creeping up but we need that triple digit total to really rattle them when we walk into the office because eighty percent pay for full responsibility is just plain insulting. If you know another nurse or anyone who thinks exploitation is wrong please send them the link right now before things stall out.

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Sean Tan
13 years ago Featured

pay them properly. simple as.

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Niamh Afolabi
13 years ago Featured

They deserve fair pay for the work they do. Enough is enough with the HSE treating staff like they dont matter.

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Siobhan Fuentes
13 years ago Featured

Absolute joke. They spent four years in college to be treated like cheap labour. Pay them what they are owed.

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Aoife Williamson
13 years ago Featured

my daughter is a nurse and i am so proud of her but this makes me sick. so unfair for them to do this after all the hard work.

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Ciaran Powell
13 years ago Featured

This is nothing but exploitation plain and simple. Fix the pay structure instead of trying to cut corners on the backs of new grads.

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Liam Jensen
13 years ago Featured

100% of the work for 80% pay? absolute madness. keep holding the line.

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