Members of SIPTU working at Tallaght hospital are to press ahead with a ballot for industrial action.
The union's Dublin Health Services Branch secretary Paul Bell, accused the hospital board of operating an information blackout and called for greater worker representation at board level.
He said that when the crisis is resolved, SIPTU intends to remove the ingredients that caused it in the first place and said that, in the meantime, it was regrettable that members were forced to ballot for industrial action.
The result of ballot is expected on Friday.
