Valuing public services, valuing public service workers!

23 June 2021, online meeting (Zoom) 09h30 – 16h00

Draft Programme

First panel (9h30 - 10h45)

Public Services and delivering on human rights

Opening remarks Mette Nord (EPSU President)

Olivier De Schutter (UN rapporteur):

Role of public services in addressing poverty and human rights - with a special focus on the European Union and economic governance

Richard Kozul-Wright (UNCTAD):

Future of public services in delivering the Green and Social Deal and Just Transformation - and how to deal with debt

Discussants: Kevin Callinan (Forsa, Ireland) & Serena Sorrentino (PF-CGIL, Italy)

Moderator: Phillipe Pochet (ETUI)

Second panel (11h15-12h30)

Trade unions, public services and public ownership

Eve Livingston (journalist, author of Make Bosses Pay: Why We Need Unions)

Leigh Phillips (journalist, author of The People's Republic of Walmart)

Discussants: Alina Tankeliun, Lithuanian Health Care Workers Union, Youth representative and Penny Clarke (EPSU Deputy General Secretary)

Moderator: Nicola Countouris, Director Research Department (ETUI)

Third panel (14h00 – 16h00)

Organising the fight against privatisation

Yiorgos Archontopoulos, President of EYATH union, Thessaloniki, Greece
Sergio Fernandez Ruiz, FSS-CCOO Madrid, responsible for public sector, Spain
Asel Maratovna Tishtyk, Deputy President of the Healthcare trade union in Kazakhstan
Nathalie Niort, CGT General Secretary, Guy Thomas Hospital Center, France
Bas van Weegberg, Board member of the FNV, Netherlands
Cristina Petrella, Co-Branch Secretary Tate United, PCS trade union, United Kingdom

Moderator: Jan Willem Goudriaan, General Secretary (EPSU)

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Report shows real value of public service workers

A new study by the New Economics Foundation (NEF) challenges the way jobs are valued in the labour market and uncovers the additional social and environmental value of key public service jobs such as hospital cleaners, childcare workers and waste and recycling workers. The NEF contrasts the positive social and environmental contributions of these jobs with the negative impact of top bankers, advertising executives and tax consultants. According to NEF calculations while collecting salaries of between £500,000 and £10 million, leading City bankers destroy £7 of social value for every pound in

PUBLIC SERVICE VALUES RECOGNISED BY EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT IN KEY VOTE

In a clear rebuke to aggressive lobbying by private sector interests, Parliament reversed, in plenary vote, the negative position of its Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee on the Green Paper on Services of General Interest.

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