The nurses are hopping mad over Government's decision to delay disclosing the decision of the Cabinet relating to their reclassification exercise.

On Wednesday, the nurses were called to a meeting with Labour and Social Security Minister Pearnel Charles, along with Minister of Health Rudyard Spencer, and Senator Arthur Williams, minister of state in the Ministry of Finance, to be briefed on the Cabinet's decision about the issue, but were instead greeted with disappointment.

Nurses' Association of Jamaica President Edith Allwood-Anderson argued that the meeting was a waste of time.

"This is not what you (Charles) have called the nurses here for, you have missed the thesis and in the summary you have not summarised the thesis," she told Charles.

However, she said she was not disappointed because she went to the meeting without any expectations.

Spencer said the decision to change the focus of the meeting was as a result of a request from the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions.

"Just before coming here, I think a day or so ago, we received a letter from the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions saying that they are a part of the health sector and there should be no reclassification without them," he said.

"They have not been given a chance to evaluate and to make recommendations, and they would like to do so," Spencer added.

He said, as a result, the nurses were informed that the Cabinet decision would not be handed down at the meeting, as they were told.

Government officials, Spencer said, would meet with the trade union team and all other health sector organisations next Thursday. A meeting with the nurses should follow on Friday.

The issue of reclassification had sparked industrial action among the nurses in September, which was later resolved at the Ministry of Labour and Social Security.