Appel d’offre recherche sur les services d’accueil des immigrants et conditions de travail – Project européen, affiliés Euromed EPSU
Echéance : 19 août 2011
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(4 April 2011) The European Federation of Public Services Unions is sending this letter of support about the ILO Domestic workers Convention. We encourage all affiliates to use it to contact their Governments.
Dear Sir or Madam,
The International Labour Conference (ILC) of the UN’s International Labour Organisation (ILO) will meet in Geneva from 1 to 15 June 2011. This special 100th session of the ILC is expected to mark history by adopting long overdue universal standards to promote decent (...)
(17 December) EPSU supports the statement from Public Services International on International Migrants Day (IMD) that we reproduce below:
According to the United Nations, there are around 215 million people today who live and work outside their countries of birth. About half of these international migrants are women, working to support their families and communities back home.
Despite the huge contribution that migrant workers bring to their host and home countries in terms of services, (...)
(13 December 2010) The question of immigrants and immigration has become an important issue in the discussion and debate leading up to the April 2011 parliamentary elections. And the trade unions have also been doing their bit. They have reacted in a positive and responsible fashion to what has become an emotive issue subject to somewhat overheated handling.
Two goals govern the union agenda on immigration and immigrants. Unions have created a multitude of activities that aim to help and (...)
(7 December 2010)
Petition ratification UN Convention migrant workers
European Parliament’s vote Directive single permit and rights for third country citizens
Dear affiliates,
The fundamental rights of migrant workers in the EU remain top of the trade union agenda.
Firstly, this year marks the 20th anniversary of the UN Migrant Workers Convention [International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, adopted on 18 December 1990]. (...)
EPSU statement, Brussels, 06 December 2010
At its Executive Committee meeting of 8-9/11/2010, EPSU expressed concerns over an agreement between the EU and Libya on migration cooperation that was struck on 4 October. The agreement addresses bilateral cooperation in the control of irregular migration, among other issues, including potential readmission of third-country nationals, who have transited through Libya on their way to Europe. It commits the EU to assist Tripoli in developing its (...)
(Press Release, 26 October, Malaga, Spain) There are not enough public services or qualified public service workers available to assist migrants, and, migrants are forced to wait too long to get the necessary information they need to make important life decisions, concludes a new survey of frontline public service workers in “migration gateway” Euro-Mediterranean countries. At the same time, despite the reality that the global financial and economic crises are forcing migrants into (...)
Màlaga, Spain, 21-22 October 2010
Ver.di workshop on trade union work on migration: a European perspective, 28-29 June 2010, Berlin
EPSU’s survey on how EPSU affiliates, in central, local and regional governments, respond to migrant workers’ concerns featured at last month’s trade union conference on migration organized by ver.di. The event brought together 50 trade union delegates, active in local migration committees, representatives of EPSU, ETUC and researchers.
Sonja Marko, Ver.di migration officer, said that Germany is (...)
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