{"id":62735,"date":"2026-10-14T15:00:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/republic-of-ireland-public-sector-strike-begins\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T15:00:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:00:54","slug":"republic-of-ireland-public-sector-strike-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/republic-of-ireland-public-sector-strike-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Republic of Ireland: Public sector strike begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b>More than 300,000 workers, including nurses, doctors, teachers and civil servants, are on strike across the Republic of Ireland.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It comes amid an ongoing pay dispute between public sector workers and the Irish government, with a further strike planned on 21 October. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is expected schools could be closed with hospital appointments cancelled and picket lines formed across the country during the 24-hour strike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the end of September, more than 100,000 workers, including nurses, school staff and civil servants, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cqevwrmevv21o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">moved to work-to-rule measures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the start of October, primary and secondary school teachers in the Republic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cr5yn390zjd1o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">began work-to-rule action<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Previously almost 97% of F\u00f3rsa members, who voted in an industrial ballot, did so in favour of action. It is the Republic&#8217;s biggest public service union.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cjn5vxlrgqn4o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 300,000 workers, including nurses, doctors, teachers and civil servants, are on strike across the Republic of Ireland. It comes amid an ongoing pay dispute between public sector workers and the Irish government, with a further strike planned on 21 October. It is expected schools could be closed with hospital appointments cancelled and picket [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62737,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62735\/revisions\/62737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}