The national and European administration sector – civil and public servants largely located in the government ministries, agencies, and EU institutions– is hugely sensitive. This is a sector subject to many reforms, often driven solely by financial considerations, from decentralisation, through alignment of working conditions and status to the private sector, to privatisation of some core functions and services. Trade union rights are often more restricted than in other sectors.
(7 December) On 22 and 23 November 2011, European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) affiliates from Western Balkan (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia) and Norway, met in Belgrade, Serbia, to discuss corruption in public services, notably public administration, judiciary and health sectors.
This was the first meeting of EPSU affiliates on this topic with the support of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung - Regional Office for project labour relations (...)
DÉCLARATION DU COMITÉ PERMANENT DE LA FSESP À L’ADRESSE DES INSTITUTIONS NATIONALES ET UE (NEA)
Les Organisations Syndicales affiliées à la FSESP, lesquelles représentent des millions de fonctionnaires et travailleurs du Secteur public en Europe, se sont rencontrées le 15 octobre 2009 à Bruxelles.
Le Comité a entendu rapport sur les plans gouvernementaux de coupes claires dans les rémunérations, dans les pensions, dans l’emploi et autres conditions du Secteur public. Ce qui va compromettre le (...)
Statement by EPSU Standing Committee on national and EU institutions (NEA)
(Brussels, 16 October 2009) EPSU’s trade union affiliates representing millions of state sector civil servants and employees in Europe met on 15 October 2009 in Brussels.
The Committee heard direct accounts of government plans to cut public and civil service pay, pensions, other conditions and jobs. These will make it impossible to maintain a high quality public service when people need it most.
Ongoing cuts (...)
The EPSU workshop on migration , jointly hosted by the National Administration and Local government sections will take place on 3-4 November in Athens. Over 30 participants have already registered for the event. It is the first occasion for EPSU members to discuss the Congress resolution on Migration .
EPSU, in association with the Labour Research Institute have sent out a questionnaire to look at the actions that unions organising members in national, regional and local government in (...)
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