Prison Services

"We are very satisfied with the public resonance and participation of this first European wide Action Day in the prison sector", says EPSU General Secretary, Carola Fischbach-Pyttel. More than 400 delegates from 10 countries (Belgium, France, Spain, Germany, Estonia, Netherlands, Italy, United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway) assembled yesterday in Brussels on a common platform of key demands. The central demonstration in Brussels was combined with many national actions, information days in prisons, petition with national parliaments and press conferences. "We want more and better qualified staff. We want better working and living conditions in prisons. We want that basic human and trade union rights are recognised. We need a European coordinated policy to tackle prison overcrowding by promoting (...)

PUBLIC SERVICE WORKERS UNITED AGAINST OVERCROWDED PRISONS

EPSU TRADE UNION EUROPEAN ACTION DAY 28 FEBRUARY 2008

Cher(e)s Collègues, cher(e)s Camarades,

Je vous adresse ce message de soutien à l’occasion de la journée d’action de ce jeudi 28 février 2008 contre la surpopulation carcérale dans les pays de l’Union européenne organisée par la FSESP.

A toutes et à tous, je souhaite plein succès pour l’euro-manif’ de la mi-journée à Bruxelles !

Félicitations aux affiliés de la FSESP pour les initiatives prises dans leurs pays respectifs dans le cadre de cette vaste campagne européenne pour sensibiliser et mobiliser les responsables politiques et l’opinion publique sur les conséquences dramatiques d’une situation (...)

(Brussels, 5 February 2008) Prison officers plan for a European action day on ‘Overcrowding in Prisons’. The meeting participants formed a planning group on behalf of all EPSU affiliates in the Prison sector. The date for the Action Day is 28 February 2008. The event will take place in at least 10 EU national capital cities with the maion event in Brussels.

The reasons for the action day:

 Prisons in the EU are on average, housing 25% more prisoners (...)

On behalf of the National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE), one of Canada’s largest trade unions, I am sending a message of solidarity for the upcoming European action day on ’Overcrowding in Prison’. The National Union represents correctional officers in most of Canada’s provincial correctional facilities.
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Press Communication (28 February 2008, Brussels) European Action Day against prison overcrowding brings together 440 trade union delegates from 10 countries including Belgium, Estonia, France, Germany, Italy Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. Rally and happening start at 12.00 until 14.30 outside the EU Justice Ministers’ Council meeting, Rue de la Loi 175. Interviews at demo site. EPSU delegation meeting with Slovenia’s Justice Minister and EU Council President, Lovro Šturm, at 11.00 a.m. until 11.30 a.m.

Further information @ www.epsu.org/prisons

EPSU TRADE UNION EUROPEAN ACTION DAY 28 FEBRUARY 2008

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Call for commitment to national events on
“European Action day on Overcrowding in Prisons” 28 February 2008
On 04 June 2007, the EPSU Executive Committee adopted the EPSU Prison Services Action Plan. This committed EPSU and its affiliates to organise a Europe Action Day on 28 February on the issue of overcrowding/ understaffing in prison services.
Based on this decision, the EPSU Prisons working group meeting of 14-09 adopted and released a statement “BRUTAL CONDITIONS (...)

EPSU ACTION PLAN ON WORKING AND LIVING CONDITIONS IN PRISON SERVICES 12 December 2006, Prague
Adopted by the Executive Committee meeting of 4 June 2007
document available in English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish and Italian:
Introduction
There are many reasons why we need to coordinate trade union work in prisons at European level:
Common trends and concerns in Europe’s prisons;
Impact of EU social legislation, EU Charter of Fundamental rights and EU liberalisation agenda of (...)

Participants list

Course “Working and living conditions in prison services in Europe: collective bargaining issues”
10-12 December 2006 - Prague, Czech Republic
The Education Department of the European Trade Union Institute for Research, Education and Health and Safety (ETUI-REHS Education) will organise a joint course with EPSU Working and living conditions in prison services in Europe: collective bargaining issues which will be held from 10 to 12 December 2006 in Prague, Czech Republic. This (...)

10-12 décembre 2006 - Prague, République Tchèque
Stage : « Conditions de vie et de travail dans les services pénitentiaires en Europe : questions de négociation collective »
Le service Formation de l’Institut syndical européen pour la recherche, la formation, la santé et la sécurité (ISE-RFSS Formation) organise, en collaboration avec la FSESP, un stage intitulé Conditions de vie et de travail dans les services pénitentiaires en Europe : questions de négociation collective qui se tiendra du 10 au 12 décembre (...)

10.-12. Dezember 2006 in Prag (Tschechische Republik)
Seminar: „Arbeits- und Lebensbedingungen in Straffvollzugsdiensten in Europa: Fragen zu Kollektivverhandlungen“
in Zusammenarbeit mit dem EGÖD veranstaltet die Bildungsabteilung des Europäischen Gewerkschaftsinstituts für Forschung, Bildung und Gesundheit und Sicherheit (ETUI-REHS Education) vom 10.-12. Dezember 2006 ein Seminar zum Thema Arbeits- und Lebensbedingungen in Straffvollzugsdiensten in Europa: Fragen zu Kollektivverhandlungen (...)

Seminar on prison services
Atelier sur les services pénitentiaires
Seminar Dienstleistungen im Strafvollzug
seminario sobre servicios penitenciarios
Seminarium om fängelsetjänster
19 May 2005, 10h00 - 17h00 Luxembourg, Jean Monnet Building, Room M5
practical information
standing committee meeting documents for members only
Inadequate infrastructure, increasing prison populations, harsher sentencing measures, the increasing criminalisation of wider sections of the population and the (...)

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