Social media gets behind nurse as she reveals her salary by sharing payslip on Twitter to refute claims workers are ‘earning more than £50,000-a-year’ ahead of impending union strike
Irish nurse Joanna Hickey took to Twitter
A nurse has been inundated with support after she posted her wage slip on Twitter to combat claims that nurses earned more than £50,000-a-year.
Joanna Hickey posted the picture of her earnings on social media and said it shows what a nurse ‘near top of the scale’ made in two weeks.
The Irish nurse’s net pay was €1,120.80 (£1,000.24) and she said that
Joanna’s reveal comes after criticism of 37,000 Irish nurses set to strike on January 30 in protest against their pay.
The INMO represents the 37,000 nurses set to strike against the government in a dispute over pay.
The union is calling for a 12% pay increase with the rise bring nurses’ pay into line with other health professionals.
On its website, the INMO said: ‘The strike will see INMO members withdraw their labour for 24 hours, providing only lifesaving care and emergency response teams.’
oanna added that she was fighting back against claims that nurses earned around €57,000 (£50,869) a year.
The nurse wrote several posts outlining the work she is expected to do.
She said: ‘A friendly reminder of what an ICU (BSc RGN/ PgD ICU/ PgD CCU) nurse’s near top of the scale wages looks like for two weeks.
‘And if I work weekends and nights away from my child & partner I might make an extra €100.
