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TPVH 3rd Negotiations meeting, 29 April 2024 Brussels Belgium

TPVH 3rd Negotiations meeting, 29 April 2024

National and European Administration, Solidarity, Health and Safety, Quality employment, Central government, Prisons Services

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Jul. 01, 2022

TUR Project

Trade Union rights project - Defending and strengthening trade union rights across the public services

Many of our members face restrictions on the right to organise, negotiate and take strike action. In some countries the limitations or complete bans impact particularly on uniformed staff –

Jul. 01, 2022

EPSU EUROCOP EUROMIL Trade Union rights project

Essential workers denied essential trade union rights

EPSU, EUROMIL and EuroCOP join forces to defend trade union rights to the Council of Europe

Apr. 05, 2022

Situation in Prison Services - Poland

Andrzej Kolodziejski, President of the of the National Prison Section of NSZZ Solidarność in Poland, wrote to the Committee of Justice and Human Rights to ask for support in their efforts to introduce necessary changes in the Prison Service.

Mar. 04, 2021

Solidarity with Greek workers in prisons services

EPSU sent a letter of solidarity to its Greek affiliate OSYE to support their calls for the recruitment of additional staff and action to address the excessive workload of their members.

Apr. 15, 2020

Fighting covid19 in prisons and detention centres in Europe: Protected prison workers – protected inmates

Based primarily on reports provided by the EPSU prison services network, EPSU has put together an update on COVID-19 in Europe’s prisons and other detention centres, as well as five policy recommendations to protect prison workers and those under their care.

Mar. 19, 2020

Fighting COVID-19 in prisons and detention centres in Europe

Call for exchange of information on government measures and trade union responses.

Sep. 03, 2019

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Public Private sector Efficiency cover

Public and Private Sector efficiency

A major review of hundreds of academic studies reveals that there is no empirical evidence that the private sector is intrinsically more efficient than the public sector

May. 11, 2017

Quality Employment and Quality Public Services in the Prison Services Sector conference 10 May 2017

Austerity has a negative impact on Europe’s prison services and disheartens staff

Europe’s austerity policies continue to have an extremely negative impact on employment conditions within the prison service sector.

Sep. 30, 2016

Romania’s prison union protest against understaffing and uncompensated overtime - EPSU solidarity message

(30 September 2016) Starting this week, the SNLP, Romania’s largest prison workers union, has launched a series of protest actions over the failure of the government to compensate massive amount