Croation T.U. of Nurses and Medical Technicians, HSSMS-MT (22 November 2012) On behalf of 8 million public service workers in Europe we express our solidarity with the struggle of our colleagues for respect for trade union rights, collective bargaining and social dialogue in Croatia. It is not acceptable that the government unilaterally decided to change the collective agreement and that the government does not engage in proper social dialogue. Proposing a state budget that does not take (...)

(Brussels 21 November) Yesterday European Union staff in Brussels decided to down their tools and assemble outside the heart of the European Union quarter, in the Schuman roundabout, to protest again for the cuts imposed on them. All the trade unions within European institutions have decided to go on strike as a follow up of their successful action on November 16. The European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) fully supports European Union institutions employees and their trade (...)

(6 November 2012) The Greek government will debate the austerity package imposed by the Troika this week. The Greek unions have organized a 48-hour strike on 6-7 November to demand the withdrawal of these measures. These include the privatisation of public companies such as Athens and Thessaloniki water companies, the public power company as well as further savings in pensions and salaries of public servants. GSEE (...)

(18 October 2012) Today and tomorrow Greek workers will be on a general strike against the new cuts announced by the Samaras government. We support the peaceful demonstration of our Greek colleagues who demand an alternative to the austerity policies. These are showing not to work and throw back the Greek economy many years. This is the second 48h general strike against the new government. EPSU affiliate ADEDY and other unions seek to stop further public spending cuts and labour law (...)

(9 October 2012) On the occasion of the Mrs. Merkel’s visit to Greece, GSEE and ADEDY (EPSU affiliated) tried to organise mass protests and a 3 hour work stoppage to protest against the neo-liberal policies that are devastating the people in Greece, 9 October 2012. Yet the authorities have banned the right to peaceful demonstrations in front of the Parliament on the Syntagma square, the traditional place for such protests, mobilizing 7000 riot police and criminalizing the protest against (...)

(Brussels, 26 September 2012) This is a crucial week for social mobilisation in Europe. Workers and citizens in several European countries have taken the streets to say no to austerity. In Portugal and Spain over two million people marched on September 15th. In Lisbon it was the biggest demonstration since the fall of the fascist dictatorship in the 70s and for the first time since austerity has been imposed on people across Europe, a Government has said that it will backtrack and listen (...)

(Brussels, September 26) The European Federation of Public Sector unions (EPSU) sends a warm message of solidarity to the Italian unions on strike and mobilization for a national demonstration in Rome this Friday September 28. The FP CGIL and UIL public sector federations take strike action in protest at government plans to restructure the public services and cut jobs, with large numbers of workers on temporary contracts under threat. The slogan of the mobilization ‘we have already paid’, (...)

(Brussels 26 September 2012) The European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) sends a warm message of solidarity to the Greece unions on strike today September 26 against the policies of the Greek Government and the austerity measures imposed by the troika. As we have said before many times, public sector workers in Greece have been targeted by this ’catastroika’ that is ruining the country, plunging it into an even deeper and sharper crisis. This mobilization takes place in the (...)

(Brussels 18 July 2012) The European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) sends a message of solidarity to their Spanish affiliates UGT, CCOO & USO in this moment of struggle against the unjust measures imposed by the Popular Party Government against the majority of the population and with special focus on public sector workers and the unemployed. The Spanish government is again attacking the civil servants: they have now lost their extra pay for Christmas, which adds to the cuts (...)

(13 June 2012) FSP-UGT and FSC-CCOO have called for a Day of action in the regional administration on June 14. This call follows the months of mobilisations against the privatisation of health and education in several autonomous communities (Madrid, Catalonia, Murcia...) and the continuous attacks against public sector by most of the regional governments throughout Spain. The call of order of the day of action is to the defend the welfare state. The trade unions want to stop the (...)