100 STUDENT NURSES PROTEST AT UHG

Date Published: 09-Feb-2011

Over 100 student nurses and midwives marched outside University Hospital Galway this lunchtime in protest over proposed pay cuts.

Most on their break from placements and wearing hospital uniforms, they chanted slogans such as ‘No Pay -No Way’, and carried banners and placards.

Students began the protest at the main doors of UHG just after 12:30p.m, and marched around the main hospital entrance for over an hour in wet conditions.

The Galway demonstration co-incided with student protests across the country, aimed at reversing proposed pay cuts to fourth year nurses.

They’re currently paid 80 per cent of the salary of a staff nurse during their 36 week placements in hospitals.