CONGRESS HIGHLIGHTS
Irish Minister of European Affairs, Dick Roche addresses the 7th EPSU Congress, 16 June
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am delighted to have been invited here today to address the EPSU Congress. I welcome the timely focus of your Congress on public services in Europe which link to policy responses on employment, sustainability, access issues and service quality. I consider it very appropriate that I should come to speak to you as we reach the end of Ireland’s EU Presidency term which has had as its theme, ‘Europeans working together for quality of life’. Public services, of course, (...)
I am delighted to have been invited here today to address the EPSU Congress. I welcome the timely focus of your Congress on public services in Europe which link to policy responses on employment, sustainability, access issues and service quality. I consider it very appropriate that I should come to speak to you as we reach the end of Ireland’s EU Presidency term which has had as its theme, ‘Europeans working together for quality of life’. Public services, of course, (...)
Ylva Thörn, President of Kommunal, welcome Congress on behalf of the hosting Swedish affiliates.
Ylva Thörns hälsning till kongressen
Välkomna till Sverige
Jag vill å de svenska EPSU-förbundens vägnar hälsa er alla hjärtligt välkomna till Sverige och Stockholm. Ett Stockholm som visar upp sin vackraste sida med detta fantastiska väder, åtminstone för alla som kom igår. Jag hoppas att vi under veckan får chansen att visa lite av vår huvudstad under några fina försommardagar.
Det känns speciellt att vi samlas till kongress just den här tiden. Vi brukar ju tala om vårt gemensamma fackliga uppdrag. Att vi delar samma frågor och kämpar (...)
Välkomna till Sverige
Jag vill å de svenska EPSU-förbundens vägnar hälsa er alla hjärtligt välkomna till Sverige och Stockholm. Ett Stockholm som visar upp sin vackraste sida med detta fantastiska väder, åtminstone för alla som kom igår. Jag hoppas att vi under veckan får chansen att visa lite av vår huvudstad under några fina försommardagar.
Det känns speciellt att vi samlas till kongress just den här tiden. Vi brukar ju tala om vårt gemensamma fackliga uppdrag. Att vi delar samma frågor och kämpar (...)
The Swedish Minister for Policy Coordination, Pär Nuder, addresses Congress Tuesday 15 June
Pär Nuder talked about three big challenges for the welfare of the future and outlined that the biggest and most important challenge is to make it attractive to work in the public sector.
“The public sector, in Western Europe in particular, is something that we can be very proud of.
But we cannot be satisfied. There is something fundamental that we have to change. There is an unspoken thought which still exists in the health care sector, in the school and in the social welfare sector.
That (...)
“The public sector, in Western Europe in particular, is something that we can be very proud of.
But we cannot be satisfied. There is something fundamental that we have to change. There is an unspoken thought which still exists in the health care sector, in the school and in the social welfare sector.
That (...)
Carola Fischbach-Pyttel, EPSU General Secretary, presented the activity and finance reports
EPSU has made significant advances in the last four years. It gives me a great sense of pride and satisfaction to make this statement from the outset.
Our work has not always been easy, but then trade union work, by definition, is not always easy.
A series of decisive external factors have impacted on our political and trade union life:
The unilateral war against Iraq, opposed by Europe’s trade unions and citizens, left a horrible aftermath of death and violation of human rights, and has (...)
Our work has not always been easy, but then trade union work, by definition, is not always easy.
A series of decisive external factors have impacted on our political and trade union life:
The unilateral war against Iraq, opposed by Europe’s trade unions and citizens, left a horrible aftermath of death and violation of human rights, and has (...)
EPSU President opening
Thank you dear comrades/ colleagues. Thank you to our Swedish colleagues for their superb work in organising this event. To Wanja Lundby-Wedin, President of LO, to Sture Nordh, President of TCO, to Anna Ekström, President of SACO, to Gunilla Grenö, President of SACO-S, and to our guest Lisbeth Eklund, former President of ST. And to our own affiliates for making their generous offer, in Lisbon in 2000, to host this congress, such an impressive reality. Thank you to John Monks, General Secretary (...)
ETUC General Secretary, John Monks, addresses EPSU 7th Congress
Anna, Carola, friends, it is a pleasure to visit the general assembly of EPSU in this lovely city, to see some old friends and meet new ones, and to be able to pay tribute to the work of EPSU as a key pillar of the European Trade Union Confederation.
With privatisation remaining a trend in many countries; with outsourcing, offshoring and competitive tendering being a major fashion item in the public sector, as well as in the private sector, with strict pressures on public expenditure in (...)
With privatisation remaining a trend in many countries; with outsourcing, offshoring and competitive tendering being a major fashion item in the public sector, as well as in the private sector, with strict pressures on public expenditure in (...)
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