No contact between government and MUMN
No contact has been made between the government and the Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses since the union ordered industrial action last week to press for the recruitment of nurses.
Union president Paul Pace said that the union's council plans to meet at the end of this week to discuss harsher actions, but it was hoped that the government would act before then.
Nurses and midwives are protesting over an acute shortage of staff and over staff meals.
They are also angry that a warrant to recognise their profession, which was promised in a collective agreement signed a year ago, never materialised.
The MUMN last week ordered nurses to refuse to perform non-nursing duties, including clerical work.
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J. Bonnici
Nov 5th 2008, 18:43
Is the taking of blood samples for blood test a non nursing duty? Yesterday morning at the Mosta polyclinic I was told by two nurses that they cannot take my blood samples because of a union directive.