A 24-hour strike by National Ambulance Service workers begins at 8am and is expected to cause major disruption. Around 2,000 ambulance service employees, who are members of SIPTU and Unite, take industrial action in a pay dispute. The strike is scheduled to end at 8am the following day.
Separate reporting indicates that industrial action is already under way, with SIPTU and Unite members in the ambulance service staging the 24-hour strike on Tuesday and continuing overnight. In addition, talks connected to the dispute are set to resume on Monday, following the 24-hour action.
Taken together, the reports describe a pay-related dispute involving the National Ambulance Service workforce represented by SIPTU and Unite, with a defined start and end time for the strike and an indicated resumption of talks the next week. The sources collectively emphasize the scale of participation and the expected service disruption during the strike period.
