Privatisation, Public Services

Today, Fp Cgil, Cisl Fp, and Uil Pa, are holding strikes to protest the plans to restructure and privatise the ENAC air traffic control body.

“There’s no returning to old policies” was a central theme of the EPSU exchange on public procurement and Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) held on 4 June.

With hundreds examples of people taking control of local public services, bringing public services back in public ownership is gaining momentum across the world.

Campaigning for the right to water, negotiating on information and consultation rights for central government workers, lobbying for tougher action on tax avoidance and fraud, standing up to multinationals and defending dismissed or imprisoned trade unionists … these are just some of the many

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

Representatives of STAL and other trade unions are continuing their fight for the right to health as well as affordable and good quality care for public administration staff and their families in Portugal.

Twenty-nine participants from EPSU affiliates in 16 countries met in Kiljava in southern Finland at the beginning of July in a two-and-a-half day seminar on public services and privatisation.

The latest Tripartite Social Summit took place on 21 March was devoted to the follow up on the European Pillar of Social Rights in EU policy.

Recent research of Corporate Europe Observatory raised concerns that the Commission is preparing to push privatisation of key public services in the European Union.

The campaign reflects and picks up many EPSU and PSI concerns about the dangerous implications - and poor value for money - that PPPs represent.

Last week (27 July) the UK trade union UNISON won a landmark case against the Conservative government over the cost of employment tribunal cases.

The latest research from the Transnational Institute, with the support of EPSU as a leading partner has been published. This report confirms what EPSU was been arguing for years, that privatisation has not worked.

(8 June 2017) England and Wales are the only countries in Europe were the complete water sector has been privatized. New research reveals how much this has cost the users of these services, estimated to be a whopping 2.3 billion pounds (2,65 billion Euros) a year. The study details how shareholders

The European Commissioner for development and aid is pushing for private sector involvement via PPPs in development and aid policy.