Local Government
list of the standing committee members
Local public services are an important part of the European social model and they help ensure social and territorial cohesion and equality. Unions are committed to high quality and efficient public services based on a well-educated and skilled work force.
The Standing Committee promotes cooperation among trade unions in the local and regional government sector and develops European positions and strategies on areas of common concern. In particular, the Committee aims to:
develop coordinated trade union strategies to improve employment conditions and trade union rights in the sector
support union campaigns to maintain and develop quality public services at the local level
promote through public procurement respect for collective agreements, and social and environmental standards
assess the impact of public-private and public-public partnerships (PPPs and PUPs) in local and regional government
counter the negative effects of privatisation on public services.
Anders Hammerback of SKTF, Sweden, is the President of the Standing Committee. He represents the Committee on the Executive Committee of EPSU. He is also President of the EPSU/CEMR Social Dialogue Committee for LRG for 2006-2007. The Vice-Presidents are Jose Manuel Marques of STAL, Portugal and Joëlle Bernard of Interco CFDT, France.
30th EPSU Standing Committee on Local and Regional Government: 9-10/04/08
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
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
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.
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I’ve signed www.petitionpublicservice.eu. Have you?

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 survey on union membership, collective bargaining and social dialogue in local and regional government
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. (...)
23 May Standing Committee on Local and Regional Government, Luxembourg
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
UK public service unions score major strike success
UK Local Government Strike 28 March - Over one million public service workers take action
EPSU General Secretary Carola Fischbach-Pyttel expressed her support for the action, stating that "across the EU there (...)
New president for EPSU’s local and regional government committee
Other items on the committee’s agenda were a EPSU survey on outsourcing, developments with the social dialogue, the impact of (...)
EPSU/CEMR project on social dialogue in the new member states and candidate countries
In’t Veld Report: time for legal certainty and local self-government
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:
7th EPSU Congress: Committee report presented by Al Butler, 14 June 2004
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 (...)
EPSU, CEMR, EUROCITIES challenge the views of the Commission on Services of General Interest (16/09/03)
see also EPSU-CEMR-EUROCITIES in the European Parliament, a round table discussion



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