General secretary salutes health staff
by Bernard Harbor
 

Fórsa general secretary Kevin Callinan has written to members of the union’s Health and Welfare division to applaud the contribution that health workers are making during the Covid-19 crisis.

 

He said that all Fórsa members had stepped up to new demands, but “nowhere has this been more challenging than in the health sector.”

 

“Right from the start our members within the sector have been truly at the sharp end of the State’s response,” he wrote.

 

Kevin also saluted the “extraordinary display of leadership” that the elected representatives of the union’s health and welfare division – and its staff – have shown over the last couple of months.

 

“Those in the wider union should be most grateful for the role that you are playing and for the unity that is being shown. In some cases that has meant providing leadership to the wider trade union movement within the sector,” he wrote.

 

Since the onset of the Covid-19 crisis Fórsa has advised members to co-operate fully with the emergency measures being pursued by the Government and its agencies. Kevin’s letter is an acknowledgement that this has placed massive demands on the union’s members in the health, welfare, and care services.

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