On 28 February 2008 EPSU organised a European Action Day to protest at overcrowding of prisons and the deterioration of working and living conditions. It aimed to: raise awareness of the human and financial cost of prison overcrowding, underlining its European (and global) nature and the human rights angle; promote common trade union demands at national and EU levels; underline the importance of social dialogue and trade union rights to improve working and living conditions in prisons; and stand up for the rights to liberty and the presumption of innocence, equal treatment of all citizens in the EU common area of freedom, security and justice.
(30 January 2009, Brussels) EPSU will mark the first anniversary of their Prison action day on 16th March 2009. The day will highlight the fact that overcrowding in prisons, throughout the EU, is still a major problem.
EPSU will call on members of the European Parliament’s Committee for Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs to support the action. EP members will be asked to sign up to the EPSU Public Service Pledge as a way of publicising the need for quality standards in prisons which, (...)
"We are very satisfied with the public resonance and participation of this first European wide Action Day in the prison sector", says EPSU General Secretary, Carola Fischbach-Pyttel. More than 400 delegates from 10 countries (Belgium, France, Spain, Germany, Estonia, Netherlands, Italy, United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway) assembled yesterday in Brussels on a common platform of key demands. The central demonstration in Brussels was combined with many national actions, information days in prisons, petition with national parliaments and press conferences.
"We want more and better qualified staff. We want better working and living conditions in prisons. We want that basic human and trade union rights are recognised. We need a European coordinated policy to tackle prison overcrowding by promoting (...)
JOURNEE D’ACTION « PRISONS »
MESSAGE DE SOUTIEN D’ANNE-MARIE PERRET, PRESIDENTE DE LA FEDERATION SYNDICALE EUROPEENNE DES SERVICES PUBLICS
Paris, 27 février 2008
Cher(e)s Collègues, cher(e)s Camarades,
Je vous adresse ce message de soutien à l’occasion de la journée d’action de ce jeudi 28 février 2008 contre la surpopulation carcérale dans les pays de l’Union européenne organisée par la FSESP.
A toutes et à tous, je souhaite plein succès pour l’euro-manif’ de la mi-journée à Bruxelles ! (...)
(Brussels, 5 February 2008) Prison officers plan for a European action day on ‘Overcrowding in Prisons’. The meeting participants formed a planning group on behalf of all EPSU affiliates in the Prison sector. The date for the Action Day is 28 February 2008. The event will take place in at least 10 EU national capital cities with the maion event in Brussels.
The reasons for the action day:
Prisons in the EU are on average, housing 25% more prisoners (...)
On behalf of the National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE), one of Canada’s largest trade unions, I am sending a message of solidarity for the upcoming European action day on ’Overcrowding in Prison’. The National Union represents correctional officers in most of Canada’s provincial correctional facilities.
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Press Communication (28 February 2008, Brussels) European Action Day against prison overcrowding brings together 440 trade union delegates from 10 countries including Belgium, Estonia, France, Germany, Italy Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and the UK.
Rally and happening start at 12.00 until 14.30 outside the EU Justice Ministers’ Council meeting, Rue de la Loi 175.
Interviews at demo site.
EPSU delegation meeting with Slovenia’s Justice Minister and EU Council President, Lovro Šturm, at 11.00 a.m. until 11.30 a.m.
Call for commitment to national events on
“European Action day on Overcrowding in Prisons” 28 February 2008
On 04 June 2007, the EPSU Executive Committee adopted the EPSU Prison Services Action Plan. This committed EPSU and its affiliates to organise a Europe Action Day on 28 February on the issue of overcrowding/ understaffing in prison services.
Based on this decision, the EPSU Prisons working group meeting of 14-09 adopted and released a statement “BRUTAL CONDITIONS HAVE BRUTAL (...)
Prisons in the EU are on average, housing 25% more prisoners (...)
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