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(28 April 2008, Brussels)This day workers and trade unions commemorate those workers and colleagues who have been killed during the preceding year because of unsustainable forms of production. It is the 13th time this day is honoured across the world. Each year around 2 million workers are killed, 1.2 million are injured and 160 million diseased.

Carola Fischbach-Pyttel: This day we pay tribute to all the dead, injured and sick workers. We remember those workers who had fatal accidents often because their employer did not provide protection to make cheap gains. We remember those workers who died while doing their jobs rescuing others like firefighters and police. We campaign for good health and safety for all.

(Vienna, 27 September, 2007) Public Services International (PSI) elected Peter Waldorff as General Secretary, at their World Congress in Vienna. Waldorff has been President of HK-Stat, the Danish union for government and public employees, since 2001. He has been a member of PSI’s executive board since 1998 and is also President of the National Administration Standing Committee in EPSU.
In his acceptance speech, Waldorff stated that “From today we stay united. I reach out two hands to (...)

TRACE - Trade Unions Anticipating Change in Europe - is a EU-funded project coordinated by the ETUI-REHS Education department on behalf of national trade union confederations and European industry federations affiliated to the ETUC - the European Trade Union Confederation. The focus for everyone is on restructuring, adapted to the needs of different countries and sectors. The results of the overall project will contribute to the European trade union response to the ongoing debate at EU (...)

Le projet TRACE - Anticipation du changement par les syndicats européens - est un projet financé par l’Union européenne dont la coordination a été confiée au département de l’Éducation de l’ETUI-REHS pour le compte de confédérations syndicales nationales et de Fédérations syndicales européennes affiliées à la CES, la Confédération européenne des syndicats. Son thème central est la restructuration adaptée aux besoins des différents pays et secteurs et ses conclusions permettront d’alimenter la contribution du mouvement (...)

TRACE ist die Abkürzung für Trade Unions Anticipating Change in Europe (Gewerkschaften antizipieren den Wandel in Europa) und bezeichnet ein von der EU finanziertes Projekt, koordiniert von der EGB-Bildungsabteilung ETUI-REHS im Auftrag nationaler Gewerkschaftsbünde und dem EGB angeschlossener europäischer Gewerkschaftsverbände. Das für alle Beteiligten wichtige Thema ist die derzeit stattfindende Umstrukturierung, angepasst an die Interessen unterschiedlicher Länder und Sektoren. Die Ergebnisse des Gesamtprojekts (...)

(13 June, Brussels) The European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) elected a second Vice-President at its Executive Committee meeting on 9 June. Ms. Tuire Santamäki-Vuori, President of JHL, Finland was unanimously elected by the EPSU Executive. Ms. Santamäki-Vuori, who is the head of Finland’s largest trade union, thanked the Executive for placing their trust in her and pledged to ’contribute to the vital work of EPSU to ensure that the concerns of public service workers are reflected (...)

closing workshop on “Decentralisation, the changing role of the State and trade union responses
Hotel Bedford, Brussels - 12 and 13 June 2006
Français - Deutsch
This meeting will be the third in a series of three workshops organised by EPSU in the framework of the TRACE project www/traceproject.org
The workshop will discuss the project’s final outcome, a handbook on public sector decentralisation including a glossary. This will be based on experiences of the first two workshops and (...)

Together with ACTRAV, the training centre in Turin, and with the participation of the ICFTU, ETUI-REHS-Education is organising a four-day course for two different groups entitled "Unions and globalisation". The course will be held from 14-17 September 2006 in Turin, in Italy. This course will bring together, in a single event, a group of European officers recruited by ETUI-REHS and a group of trade unionists from French speaking African countries who are attending a longer-term training (...)

The Congress of EPSU affiliate AbvaKabo discussed a range of issues including on pay and conditions, pensions and the public sector, 17-18 May. The union commits to more European work and argues for a broader discussion on public services in the Netherlands. It re-elected Edit Snoey as President and Jenneke van Pijpen as vice-President. Jenneke represents the union on the EPSU Executive Committee and the constituency on the Steering Committee. A new officer elected is Charley Ramdas. (...)

We extend warm Mayday greetings to all EPSU affiliates. Millions of workers will be celebrating this historic date as a reminder to all of us that decent wages and working conditions are the result of struggle and do not fall from the sky.

The German poet Kurt Tucholsky, 1890 - 1935, wrote in 1931: " That workers should be paid for a job done is a theory which generally has been abandoned today." Clearly some employers and their organisations would like to abandon the idea of adequately paid work today, in 2006. We are here to not let that happen. Carola Fischbach-Pyttel

Invitation au dernier atelier sur le thème : "Décentralisation, l’évolution du rôle de l’État et les réponses des syndicats"
Hôtel Bedford, Bruxelles - 12 et 13 juin 2006
EN - DE
Cet ateliers sera le dernier d’une série de trois ateliers s’inscrivant dans le cadre du projet TRACE : www.traceproject.org.
On y discutera de ce qui doit constituer l’aboutissement de ce projet, un manuel sur la décentralisation du secteur public accompagné d’un glossaire. Il tirera les enseignements des deux premiers ateliers (...)

Einladung zum abschließenden Workshop „Dezentralisierung, die neue Rolle des Staates und die Antworten der Gewerkschaften
Hotel Bedford, Brüssel, 12. und 13. Juni 2006
EN - FR
dies ist der letzte von insgesamt drei Workshops, die der EGÖD im Rahmen des TRACE-Projekts veranstaltet (mehr über TRACE unter www/traceproject.org).
Der Workshop wird über das Endergebnis des Projektes diskutieren - ein Handbuch über die Dezentralisierung im öffentlichen Sektor, zu dem auch ein Glossar gehört. Das Handbuch basiert auf den (...)

We would like to greet all EPSU members at the beginning of this year. 2005 has been very active for EPSU. The main EPSU conferences on public - private partnerships in May, on energy policy in November and collective bargaining in December, were very well attended and together with affiliated unions we have participated in several demonstrations, such as the ETUC European demonstration of 19 March, the working time demonstration of 2 June and the energy demonstration 1 December. Most of (...)

EPSU is a partner in a EU-wide project called TRACE (for more information on Trace see http://www.traceproject.org).
Through TRACE we want to better understand, anticipate and manage restructuring in national, regional and local government, especially in relation to decentralisation.
The first of three TRACE workshops on these issues took place in Oxford, 30 June - 2 July 2005, in cooperation with the UK members of the LRG and NEA Committees.
The second workshop(*) took place on 15-17 (...)

Press Communication, 6 December 2005
(Brussels 2 December) Ms. Anne-Marie Perret (Federal Secretary of Force Ouvrière-Fonctionnaires) has been elected as President of the European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU). The EPSU Executive Committee unanimously endorsed the nomination at its meeting on 29-30 November 2005. Ms. Perret will serve as President until the next EPSU congress in 2009.
Ms. Perret has served as one of the two EPSU Vice-Presidents since 2001. On accepting the (...)

This meeting was the first in a series of three workshops organised by EPSU in the framework of the TRACE project http://www.traceproject.org.
19 representatives from EPSU affiliated unions took part, from 12 countries. Most but not all came from the LRG or NEA sectors, and there was a mix of representatives from both “new” and “older” Member States.
The aim of EPSU’s TRACE project is to examine the impact of decentralisation on public services and employment and (...)

The Convention on the Future of Europe was established in December 2001, composed of representatives of the European Parliament, the European Commission, national governments and parliament, with representatives of the European employers and trade unions being associated as observers. Representatives of the then 10 accession countries were full members of the Convention although the last enlargement of the EU was only formally concluded on the 1 May 2004. The Convention was presided by Valéry (...)

Statuts - Satzung - Stadgar - Estatutos - УСТАВ

How the committees relate to each other.

The European Federation of Public Service Unions, EPSU, is a free and democratic federation of independent trade union organisations for employees in public services in Europe. It is the largest industry Federation within the ETUC. The Federation speaks on behalf of over 209 public sector unions representing approximately 8 million organised workers in more than 36 EU and applicant countries as well as member states of the European Economic Area. The EPSU was founded in 1978.
The EPSU (...)

Der Europäische Gewerkschaftsverband für den öffentlichen Dienst (EGÖD) ist ein freier und demokratischer Verband unabhängiger Gewerkschafts-organisationen für die Beschäftigten des öffentlichen Dienstes in Europa. Er ist der größte Gewerkschaftsverband innerhalb des EGB und spricht im Namen von mehr als 209 Gewerkschaften des öffentlichen Sektors mit fast 8 Millionen organisierten ArbeitnehmerInnen in der Europäischen Union, im Europäischen Wirtschaftsraum und in den Beitrittskandidatenländern (insgesamt mehr als 36 Länder). (...)

La Fédération Syndicale Européenne des Services Publics, FSESP, est une fédération libre et démocratique d’organisations syndicales indépendantes pour les travailleurs des services publics en Europe. La FSESP est la plus importante fédération de la CES. Elle représente près de 209 syndicats du secteur public, c’est-à-dire environ 8 millions de travailleurs dans plus de 36 pays d’Europe (Union Européenne et pays candidats ainsi que les états membres de l’Aire Economique Européenne). La FSESP a été fondée en 1978.
La (...)

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