EPSU’s Congresses and Executive Committee have adopted a number of policies that set targets or provide guidelines for collective bargaining. This document provides an overview of the policies in place by the end of 2005.

EPSU’s 2004 Congress agreed that low pay should be one of the main collective bargaining issues to be covered in the five years to the next Congress. A draft policy document was discussed by the 2005 collective bargaining conference and an amended version agreed at the Executive Committee meeting in February 2006.

EPSU began investigating the impact of outsourcing on collective bargaining in 2004 and developed a policy based on a checklist of key issues that affiliates should take into account when faced with the outsourcing of a public service.

Collective bargaining policies are debated initially at the collective bargaining conference and a number of issues have been discussed overt the last four years, some of which have not been developed fully into policies.