NUGFW to take SWRHA to court over 124 workers’ dismissals

The Na­tion­al Union of Gov­ern­ment and Fed­er­at­ed Work­ers (NUGFW) is prepar­ing to take the South-West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) to the In­dus­tri­al Court over the ter­mi­na­tion of 124 dai­ly-paid work­ers, which it says was un­law­ful and breached good in­dus­tri­al re­la­tions prac­tices.

NUGFW pres­i­dent gen­er­al Christo­pher Streete said yes­ter­day that the union planned to file an In­dus­tri­al Re­la­tions Of­fence (IRO) com­plaint lat­er this week, af­ter at­tempts to re­solve the dis­pute through dis­cus­sions with the health au­thor­i­ty failed.

Streete said the union would pur­sue le­gal re­dress for the af­fect­ed work­ers, al­though the SWRHA main­tains that its ac­tions were law­ful.