The Council of the Irish Medical Organisation is to urge its members to vote against proposed cuts in the Croke Park extension deal.
The organisation met today to consider their response to the published proposals, and said they would campaign strongly to try to secure a NO vote.
The IMO claim the proposals are designed to force doctors in public hospitals to work longer hours for less pay. A move they claim poses a danger to the lives of the patients as well as to the health and well being of the doctors themselves.
The organisation were one of the groups that walked out of talks on the new deal on February 24th last, just hours before the final deal was brought to the table.
Steve Tweed, Industrial Relations Officer with the IMO, says it's too early to talk about what action the union will take if its members reject the deal:
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