Local Government

Workshop on Violence in the Workplace
9 April 2008 , 09h30 - 17h00
30th Meeting of the EPSU Standing Committee on Local and Regional Government
10 April 2008 , 09h00 - 16h00
Jean Monnet building, plateau du Kirchberg, Luxembourg
You are herewith invited to participate in the following meetings:
Workshop on violence in the workplace, on Wednesday 9 April from 09h30 - 17h00
30th meeting of the Standing Committee on Local and Regional Government, on Thursday 10 April from 09h00 - (...)

Workshop on Violence in the Workplace 9 April 2008, 09h30 - 17h00
Jean Monnet Building, Room M3, Plateau du Kirschberg - Luxembourg
for participation form, hotels list and documents, please see the 30th meeting of the Standing Committee on Local and Regional Government, 10 April 2008, 9h00 - 16h00, Luxembourg

29th Standing Committee on Local and Regional Government
European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) - Room JDE60
31 October 2007, Brussels, 9.00 - 17.00
You are herewith invited to the 29th meeting of the Standing Committee on Local and Regional Government. The meeting will take place in Brussels on 31st October 2007, at the EESC, Rue Belliard 99, 1040 Brussels. The meeting starts at 9.00 and will end at 17.00 at the latest. An area map is enclosed for information.
We send you the (...)

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 - 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 (...)

EPSU would like to get a better picture of developments in the areas of union membership, collective bargaining and social dialogue in local and regional government. We have therefore commissioned the Labour Research Department, a trade union research body based in London, to undertake a study on the present situation.
This will use existing material, including the joint CEMR-EPSU survey in 2005 on the 12 states that joined the EU in 2004 and 2006, as well as Turkey. But to get a fully (...)

UPDATE ON ACTIVITIES
1. EPSU / CEMR local and regional government social dialogue committee
Follow-up to plenary meeting 29 November
The plenary meeting took place on 29 November, and we send you the minutes for your information (available in English, French and German - see the Minutes section in the Social Dialogue section->art2632]).
The meeting adopted a joint statement on social dialogue in the sector and the text is available in all EPSU languages plus Italian on www.epsu.org/a/2558. (...)

The main items on the agenda included:
Election of vice President, Jose Manuel Marques, STAL Portugal
Review of current work programme, with view to preparing next programme for 2007-2009
Update on LRG social dialogue
Adoption of checklist on outsourcing

Across the UK 1.4 million public service workers took to the streets yesterday in protest against the UK Government plans to change the local government pension scheme. EPSU affiliates NIPSA, T & G, GMB, AMICUS and UNISON took part in the action. The day strike was extremely well observed with over 17,500 schools, as well as council offices, transport depots, libraries and leisure facilities witnessing strong picket lines (...)

Over one million of the United Kingdom’s most essential public sector workers will go on strike on 28 March to protest at unfair and unjust cuts to local government pensions. EPSU affiliates UNISON, GMB, Amicus, NIPSA and T & G are involved in the action. The strike is planned because the UK Government refuses to give protection for existing members of their pension scheme.
EPSU General Secretary Carola Fischbach-Pyttel expressed her support for the action, stating that "across the EU there (...)

The LRG standing committee elected Anders Hammerback, SKTF Sweden as the new president at its meeting on 8 November. Anders takes over from Al Butler, IMPACT Ireland. Anders will also chair the meetings of the social dialogue committee for local and regional government for the period 2006-2007, taking over from Alexaander Aagard from the employers side, CEMR-EP.
Other items on the committee’s agenda were a EPSU survey on outsourcing, developments with the social dialogue, the impact of (...)

(September 2005) The background study for the project on the state of social dialogue in new EU Member States and candidate countries is now being finalised and will be discussed by the project steering group on 1 September. The study contains information on social dialogue in local and regional government in all 13 countries, with a special focus on 5 of these (Turkey, Poland, Hungary, Estonia, Slovakia). A joint Conference on 14 October, in Budapest, will discuss the findings. The (...)

Appeal to Members of the European Parliament from cities, local SGEI providers and public services unions

Joint press release, 21 February 2005

Cities, providers of local services of general economic interest and public services unions call on Members of the European Parliament to amend the text of the In’t Veld Report, adopted in the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, in order to return to the spirit of the European Commission’s proposal:

Dear colleagues, it gives me great pleasure to report on the activities of the EPSU Standing Committee for Local and Regional Government Committee. The aim of my report is to give an assessment of the work of the Committee during the last four years and to highlight some of the key, ongoing, areas of action.
Looking back to the tasks we set ourselves, these can be listed under four main objectives;
1. Strengthen the dialogue with CEMR (in terms of content and depth) and in particular (...)

for the Joint Statement
see also EPSU-CEMR-EUROCITIES in the European Parliament, a round table discussion

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