Blog: Health workers in Northern Ireland need all our support

Hats, gloves and big coats accompany health workers in Northern Ireland as they’re braving minus temperatures to line the entrances of all NI major hospitals and the ambulance trusts they work at. They’re protesting over the state of their pay packets and the state of the wards inside the hospital doors.
A 24-hr strike, escalating from a period of action short of strike, could have been avoided with a decent pay award. But even the paltry award they were promised – the same &po