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Mar. 20, 2023

EPSU South East Constituency meeting, March 2023, Istanbul

South East European Constituency and solidarity with people in Turkey

We stood in silence to express our solidarity and sympathy for the people in Turkiye. Our comrades suffered such great loss in the tragedy of the earthquake of 6 February.

Apr. 23, 2021

Digital binary

Platform work: making workers’ rights matter

In February this year, the Supreme Court in the UK ruled that Uber, the driving, and delivery platform, should treat its drivers as workers and not as self-employed. This follows a trend across Europe where courts in several countries have forced digital platforms to revise the employment relationship with the workers providing their services. Platform work is changing the economic and social landscape, revolutionising the way services are delivered while raising major questions about social and labour rights.

Feb. 17, 2021

The 4 EPSU Constituencies meet in January and February 2021

The impact of the pandemic on public service workers – meeting over 120 union leaders in Central and Eastern Europe constituencies

The union leaders met to discuss how the pandemic and the measures to contain it are effecting workers during several events.

Dec. 09, 2020

EPSU Executive Committee November 2020

EPSU Executive discussed strategies to change society and our economy Post-Covid and decided for a Joint Action Day on 23 June 2021

The impact of the pandemic on health and social services workers is huge.

Oct. 06, 2020

EPSU South East Constituency meeting 30 September 2020

South East European Constituency – unions mobilise to assist workers in the pandemic

The pandemic is raging in several of the countries in the constituency.

Sep. 18, 2019

EPSU South East Europe Constituency meeting September 2019 Chisinau, Moldova

Public services unions of the South East European constituency warn for negative role US chamber of commerce

The US Chamber of Commerce is actively lobbying for changes to Law in several countries in South East Europe, unions reported.

Apr. 12, 2019

Capacity building project for the hospital sector in Central, East and Southern Europe started

On 28 March 2019 EPSU participated, together with its representatives of the two national affiliates from Romania, Sanitas, and Croatia, HSSMS-MT, in the kick-off meeting of the joint HOSPEEM-EPSU project focusing on strengthening social dialogue in the hospital sector that will run in 2019 and 2020.

Oct. 24, 2018

EPSU affiliated unions representatives at a training session in Chisinau in Moldova on 2-3 October 2018

Addressing the recruitment challenges in Moldova and the Czech Republic

Public service trade unions in Moldova and the Czech Republic have benefited from EPSU support for two recent seminars on recruitment and organising.Thirty participants from three EPSU affiliates took part

Nov. 20, 2017

Unions debate recruitment strategy and tactics

Representatives of 12 EPSU affiliates in South East Europe met in Bucharest last week to discuss how to improve their recruitment and organising strategy and tactics. The meeting, supported by

Mar. 31, 2017

EPSU’s South East Europe constituency meeting tackles gender equality, recruitment and collective bargaining

EPSU’s south east European Constituency meeting, which met in Sofia 28-29 March 2017, held in-depth discussions on the persistence of the gender pay gap and what could be done to reduce inequality through collective bargaining.