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TPVH 3rd Negotiations meeting, 29 April 2024 Brussels Belgium

TPVH 3rd Negotiations meeting, 29 April 2024

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Mar. 15, 2024

EPSU Standing Committee on Local and Regional Government, February 2024, Brussels

Waste, organising, and digitalisation: local and regional government standing committee meets

At its 62nd meeting, the LRG Standing Committee defined its priorities for 2024 in line with the program of action of the 2019 EPSU Congress in Dublin.

Feb. 16, 2023

verdi actions February 2023 photo by Kay Herschelmann

Germany: warning strikes and negotiations for pay increase

EPSU sent solidarity greetings for ver.di negotiations in federal and local government and for the warning strikes being organised to support those negotiations.

Oct. 27, 2020

Germany: latest agreement to boost pay in health and care

After intensive negotiations over the weekend, public services union ver.di has negotiated a new collective agreement covering 2.3 million workers in municipal and federal government with specific measures benefiting employees in health and social care.

Sep. 26, 2019

EPSU Congress June 2019 Programme of Action leaflet

EPSU Congress : Programme of Action

This programme of action highlights the main priorities for EPSU over the next Congress period and is set out on the basis of three main themes

Nov. 30, 2018

2018: a challenging year of action and negotiation across the public services

This year has seen some important negotiating successes for public service unions but also continuing struggles in some countries where austerity continues to bite.

Oct. 09, 2018

EPSU Standing Committee on Local and Regional Government, 4 October 2018, Brussels

Decent work and “pay change” on agenda for Local Government workers

Members of EPSU’s Local and Regional Government Standing Committee met on 4th October in Brussels to discuss timely matters that concern the 17 million workers in Local and Regional Governments across Europe.

Feb. 02, 2018

EPSU supports Italian affiliates mobilisation to speed up negotiations

It is now 14 months since EPSU’s Italian affiliates signed a framework agreement covering public sector workers.

Oct. 17, 2017

Solidarity with Italian firefighters

Italian firefighters are demonstrating for better pay and pensions, for more funding for the fire services and for improved staffing.

Jun. 27, 2017

What is Green Collective Bargaining?

In 1987, the United Nations published the Brundtland Report which argued that sustainable development to tackle climate change should be based on three pillars - economic, social and environmental.

Jan. 31, 2017

EPSU backs striking municipal workers in Turkey

(31 January 2017) Today EPSU sent a message of solidarity to the Genel-İş municipal workers' union whose members are on strike in Karabağlar, a district of İzmir province in western