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Wed 05 May 2007Nurses told pay will be cut unless work to rule stopsMore than 40,000 nurses will have their pay cut by 13.16 per cent from Friday week unless they call off their ongoing industrial action, health service employers warned last night.Notice of the plan to deduct money from their wages from May 18th for engaging in a work to rule which is now in its sixth week has been sent to the two unions representing the nurses, the Irish Nurses' Organisation (INO) and the Psychiatric Nurses' Association (PNA).