(8 March, Tallinn) EPSU affiliate ROTAL have staged a ’signing drive’ and public demonstration as part of the Quality Public Service - Quality of Life campaign. The event, which took place on 8 March, was a concerted effort to get signatures for the ETUC petition on public services. Kalle Liivamägi, EPSU campaign coordinator in Estonia, stated that he hoped that this action would signal a ’stepping up’ of campaign activity through the Baltic’s. The ROTAL head stated that it was vital that (...)
- C. Fischbach-Pyttel, EPSU General Secretary and K. Liivamägi, President ROTAL Estonia, signing the petition
I’ve signed www.petitionpublicservice.eu. Have you?
PLEASE GIVE US 30 SECONDS OF YOUR TIME FOR A MORE CITIZEN FRIENDLY EU.
I am proud to say that I have signed the petition calling for a legal instrument for public services at the EU level. For the next 12 weeks, EPSU and its 200+ affiliates, will be making the ETUC petition on public services our number one priority. We aim, in association with the ETUC - find your national confederation here and here - the other European Trade Union Federations, and our growing list of allies, to reach our target of one million signatures by the start of the ETUC congress in Seville on 21-24 May.
Let us remember that the gathering of one million signatures is the message. Our aim, indeed our long term struggle, is to have a strong legal instrument at EU level that reflects the value of public services in European society, recognises the (...)
(12 February 2007) The leaders of the Baltic public service unions pledged to get many signatures for the public service petition of the ETUC. Health, state, municipal, energy and other public services unions recognise the importance of obtaining more then a million signatures in favour of a European initiative to promote quality public services. The EPSU Deputy General Secretary argued that the petition also assists unions in reaching out to citizens and non-union members. The Baltic (...)
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