Users of disability and community services are set to be hit by rolling strike action in Donegal, Cork, Kerry, Galway and Mayo.
Workers in community and so-called ‘section 39’ organisations are staging the three day action in a dispute over pay.
Unions say the health and social-care workers in the agencies which are funded by the HSE, are paid considerably less than those employed directly by the HSE and other state bodies.
A march will take place in Letterkenny tomorrow, leaving from outside the SIPTU office at 12 noon, concluding with a rally outside the Intreo Centre.
SIPTU’s Adrian Kane says the staff haven’t had a pay rise in 14 years:
