Galway Bay fm newsroom - Representatives from SIPTU are taking aim at University Hospital Galway for its alleged failure to fully utilise health care assistants.
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Last July, SIPTU reps and hospital management engaged under the Workplace Relations Commission.
It was agreed that these assistants should be relieved of functions considered inappropriate to their role.
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However, since then there has been no agreement on how hospital support staff should support them.
SIPTU Organiser Yvonne McGrath describes what work the assistants are doing,
