The Frontline Services Alliance which represents workers in crucial public services has said it will suppport Ictu protests in Dublin scheduled for next week.
Details of how alliance members who are not members of Ictu- including the Psychiatric Nurses' Association, Garda Representative Association and Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors - are to be worked out at a meeting on Monday
At the meeting, Alliance representatives will discuss how best to co-ordinate their activities with congress to maximise support for the campaign for "a better, fairer way of tackling the economic crisis and protecting vital services to the public".
The Alliance will also be meeting a number of other organisations, which it said have expressed a wish to join the Frontline campaign, on Tuesday next.
These include the Medical Laboratory Scientists' Association, Unite, the TEEU and UCATT.
In a statement this evening the alliance said it "will monitor the bout of intensive talks due to begin on Tuesday between Congress, the Government, Ibec and other social partners.
"Those members of the Alliance who are not members of the Ictu will be kept briefed on a daily basis on how talks are progressing. The Psychiatric Nurses' Association, Garda Representative Association and Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors are not members of the Ictu, but the outcome of the renewed talks on a national agreement will affect their conditions of employment.
Alliance chairman Des Kavanagh said the national agreement would also affect the level of services which may in future be provided to the public".
Mr Kavanagh, who is General Secretary of the Psychiatric Nurses' Association added: "These workers outside the talks will have a vital role to play, whatever the outcome of those negotiations, on the way we, as a society meet the challenges ahead. So it is only fair that they be kept up to date on what is happening in the negotiations in order that they can make informed decisions for the future."