Brussels / Bucharest, 14 March 2013
EPSU organised a conference on workforce migration in the health care sector for the health trade unions in Bulgaria and Romania. The conference was held on 20 and 21 February 2013 in Bucharest and was attended by 32 participants from the 4 health unions from the 2 South-Eastern European countries. Important contributions were made by representatives of these affiliates, including Claudia Petcu, Secretary General, SANITAS, and Zlata Zlatanova, (...)
14 March 2013, Brussels
Venue: European Transport Workers Federation (ETF), Galerie AGORA, Rue du Marché aux Herbes 105 – 1000 Brussels
Map of the venue area (ETF)
preceded by the Working Group Social Services on 13 March 2013 and followed by a meeting on EU-level initiatives dealing with qualifications, skills and competences and EPSU’s priorities and role on 15 March 2013 (in EPSU Office, Rue Joseph II 40, 1000 Brussels.
EPSU HSS - KEY DATES 2013 (as of 24 January 2013)
INTERPRETATION (...)
Brussels/Strasbourg, 24 January 2013
On 23 January 2013 the IMCO Committee with a large majority (33 votes in favour, 4 against, 2 abstentions) adopted about 30 compromise amendments to MEP Bernadette Vergnaud’s (S&D Group, France) draft report on the EC proposal for a directive to amend Directive 2005/36/EC on the recognition of professional qualifications (including a regulation on administrative cooperation through the Internal Market Information System). The final vote in the EP (...)
Brussels, 1 February 2013
EPSU supports the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) in its call for a boycott of jobs offered to the 2012 nurse graduates as part of the “New Graduate Jobs initiative” of the Irish government. Announced by the Irish Department of Health in December 2012, it consists of 1,000 contract posts (fix-term contracts for a duration of 2 years) to newly qualified nurses at 80% of pay, corresponding to 21,766 €, just above minimum wage. If implemented this will (...)
Brussels, 30 January 2013
For several months now EPSU’s Kosovar member organisation “Federata e Sindikatave të Shëndetësisë së Kosovës” (FSSHK), the Trade Union Health Federation of Kosova, has been advocating and campaigning at national and local level to prevent from a promulgation of the new Health Law by Atifete Jahjaga, President of the Republic of Kosovo. To underpin FSSHK’s demands, a petition has been signed in 2012 by more than 6,000 health workers of Kosovo.
FSSHK demands a number of (...)
Minsk/Brussels, 31 October 2012
EPSU participated in and contributed to the International Workshop "Social dialogue as an instrument of solving problems of labour migration in health care", organised by its Belarus member "Belarusian Trade Union of Healthcare Workers" and held in Minsk on 30 and 31 October 2012. The meeting brought together colleagues working in health care institutions and trade union delegations from all 6 regions and from Ukranian EPSU affiliate "Central Committee of (...)
Riga/Brussels, 20 November 2012
The Latvian Trade Union of Health and Social Care Employees (LVSADA), together with six other trade unions, professional associations and employers from the sector of health and social services, in a resolution sent on 20 November 2012 to European Parliament and the Council of the European Union challenging the role of Latvia as EU Council President country in the first half of 2015 should the current government policy be continued. They state that they (...)
23 October 2012
Luxembourg, Plateau du Kirchberg, Jean Monnet Building - room M2
(the Standing Committee will be followed by the Working Group on Social Services meeting, 24 October)
Meeting documents (for our members only)
(Brussels, 12 October 2012)
This page contains the links to other webpages that present and introduce the outcomes of the activities run - i.e. mainly EPSU’s European Health Conference 2011, 18 and 19 October 2011, Bucharest – and of the research done in the context of EPSU’s Project "Europeanisation of health policies and health care systems and common challenges for the health care workforce - Options for trade unions and the role of social dialogue to address them in the next decade" (that (...)
(Brussels, 8 October 2012)
The summary information contains and attached to this article highlights some aspects of recent developments in collective bargaining on pay and working conditions and industrial action in the sector of health and social services in Slovakia. It has been compiled as EPSU considers that the trends and conflicts described are far from being a unique feature of the Slovak Republic, but rather well reflect challenges to social dialogue, social partnership and (...)
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