PUBLIC SERVICE WORKERS UNITED AGAINST OVERCROWDED PRISONS

EPSU TRADE UNION EUROPEAN ACTION DAY 28 FEBRUARY 2008

Presentation from our colleagues from CC.OO, Spain

Meeting with the Slovenian Minister of Justice Lovro Sturm, the current President of the EU Justice and Home Affairs Council

Arrival and assembly of more than 400 delegates from 10 countries

Opening address by Carola Fischbach-Pyttel, EPSU General Secretary

Happening organised by the Belgium delegates

Speeches by delegates from different European countries

Luc Neirynck, CSC-services publics/ACV-openbare diensten, Belgium

Jacob Michel, CGSP/ACOD-AMiO, Belgium

José Miguel Guzman, General Secretary of state sector of IIPP CC.OO., Spain

Céline Verzeletti, General Secretary CGT-UGSP pénitentiaire, France

 lire l’intervention de Céline Verzeletti

Marie-Odile Esch, General Secretary CFDT-Interco, France

Peter Estrich, Honorary chairman prison commission Ver.di, Germany

Kalle Liivimagi, President ROTAL, Riho-Edgar Laats, ROTAL, Estonia

Tore Leir Fall, YS-STAT, Norway

Jan Willem Dieten, ABVAKABO, the Netherlands

Francesco Quinti, FP-CGIL, Italy

Juan Miguel Cazalla, FSP-UGT, Spain

Ann Norman, RCN, United Kingdom

 Read the speech of Ann Norman

Stephen Withers, Vice-President prison group PCS, United Kingdom

 Read the speech of Stephen Withers

Bernard Bolze, French coordinator numerus clausus network (member of the CFDT-Interco prison network), France

Closing speech by Carola Fischbach-Pyttel, EPSU General Secretary

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