(23 February, Dublin Ireland)
Massive turnout for union demonstration
Around 200,000 people joined the national demonstration in Dublin on Saturday organised by the ICTU union confederation in protest at the government’s handling of the economic crisis. A particular focus of trade union anger has been the decision to impose a pensions levy on public sector workers that will cost them between €1,500 and €2,800 a year. The previous weekend had seen the IMPACT trade union co-ordinate lobbying of (...)
11 May 2007
Ennis, Ireland
Address to the IMPACT Joint Seminar on Quality Public Services
European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) Brian Synnott Communication and campaigns officer
Dear friends, I am delighted to be able to speak to you on this occasion of your Biennial conference. I would like to thank Peter Nolan for this invitation. The European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) represents over 200 public service trade unions. That amounts to over 8 million public (...)
28 March, 2007 EPSU Ireland affiliate, IMPACT, have launched a comprehensive campaign to defend Ireland’s public servants. The campaign can be accessed here: www.qualitypublicservices.ie. The action by IMPACT swiftly follows on from the joint EPSU/IMPACT press conference to push for an EU framework law on public services. This event, which took place 15 March, saw EPSU General Secretary Carola Fischbach-Pyttel and Irish Congress of Trade Union (ICTU) General Secretary, Dave Begg (...)
DIARY MARKER from IMPACT Trade Union
To: News Editors, Industrial and European Correspondents
Wednesday 7th March 2007
Carola Fischbach-Pyttel, General Secretary of the European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) will be in Dublin on Thursday 15th March for the Irish launch of EPSU’s European Campaign for Quality Public Services.
The launch takes place at 11.00am in IMPACT head office, Nerney’s Court, (off Temple Street), Dublin 1. The media are invited to attend.
Speakers (...)
The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) petition calls on the Commission to introduce EU legislation to ensure universal access to public services and protect them from privatisation. Click www.petitionpublicservice.eu to sign the petition.
Supported by another huge trade union body, the European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU), ETUC is calling for a framework directive to prevent the EU’s free market rules determining the future of services as diverse as water, education, (...)
Thomas Kattnig, GDG Austria, Mathias Flickschu, Verdi Germany, and Bernard Harbor IMPACT Ireland at the PES Group seminar on public services, 19 September 2006, Brussels
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