The European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) is placing the defence of vital public services at the top of its policy agenda for the next four years. This battle for the identity of Europe is about improving and expanding the European Social Model by means of “intelligent social investment”. The alternative is the triumph of unbridled commercialism and privatisation fostered by competition law, public-private partnerships and other invidious mechanisms.
The blueprint for this (...)

The European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) will strengthen industrial relations tools in the enlarged European Union (EU) in the next four years. The practise of collective bargaining and social dialogue between employers and employees, in particular, will be vigorously promoted.
This commitment to improved use of these mechanisms and their entire extension to the ten new member states are contained in a Resolution: R.2. Collective Bargaining. This document will be (...)

The European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) sees pensions as one of the pillars on which the social future of Europe will be built. It is a “priority” for the next four years.
EPSU’s future vision is of well-managed and indexed state and occupational pensions. The poor management and “speculative investment” linked to pensions in the recent past has blighted the future of countless employees.
These views are reflected in a document: Resolution: R.3. Pensions, to be (...)

The European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) will work to protect the gains made on gender equality, a major priority area, in the next four years.
This drive to reach closure on the achievement of wage and all other forms of equality between men and women in the workforce is defined in Resolution: R.4. Gender Equality. This will be tabled at EPSU’s Congress in Stockholm (14-17 June).
There are more women than men in the public sector and they are usually the main (...)

The European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) welcomes the ten new European Union (EU) members into the European Union (EU) in a spirit of solidarity. It also believes that the common good of both old and new member states will only be served by ensuring that the European Social Model is enhanced rather than diminished by this historic enlargement.
A multitude of issues is identified by Resolution: R5 Public Services in an Enlarged European Union (EU) which will be tabled at the (...)