Home page > Public Services & the EU > EPSU campaign for a EU legal framework on public services > Deutschland

Deutschland

German Unions to strike after ‘insulting’ wage offer

(14 February, 2008, Berlin) EPSU affiliate ver.di today announced a series of ‘warning strikes’ by Public Service workers. The strikes, scheduled from 14-22 February, will take place throughout Germany. Ver.di President Frank Bsirske announced that public service workers had no choice but to strike. A ver.di negotiator commented that; “the ‘insultingly low’ wage offer by representatives of the Municipal and Federal employers is the cause of this action”. After three rounds of negotiations, all (...)

EPSU affiliate Ver.di in referendum victory for public services

(1 February, Leipzig). EPSU German affiliate, Ver.di has helped secure a victory for public services in a local referendum in Leipzig. Initiated by a large coalition including unions and Attac Leipzig, the result saw the citizens of the German town stop the city mayor’s privatisation plans http://www.buergerbegehren-leipzig.de/. EPSU General Secretary, Carola Fischbach-Pyttel, praised the work of Ver.di, stating that this: “illustrates the iron bond between quality public services and (...)

I’ve signed www.petitionpublicservice.eu, have you ?

I’ve signed www.petitionpublicservice.eu. Have you?


Carola Fischbach-Pyttel, EPSU General Secretary and Ursula Werheit, Ver.di, Germany, signing the petition


S. Bergelin, Ver.di

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 - 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 (...)