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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.

Oct. 03, 2023

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Asbestos Directive: mandatory decontamination a win for firefighters

Today the European Parliament voted on the deal agreed with Member States on the revision of the Directive on Protecting Workers from Asbestos.

Mar. 22, 2022

Stop Asbestos deaths visual

EPSU calls on the Commission to stop asbestos deaths

EPSU believes that we need a binding legislative initiative at EU level and we urge the European Commission to move forward with a comprehensive legislative package to protect workers from asbestos.

May. 19, 2021

Documents Firefighters' Network

2021 draft report on asbestos - posted 14/04 EPSU firefighters and emergency services workers - Adaptation to climate change - posted 19/05

May. 06, 2020

EPSU meeting with Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius on Circular Economy

EPSU meets EU Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius to discuss Circular Economy Action Plan

The European Commission adopted a European union circular economy action plan in March 2020. EPSU organised a discussion with Virginijus Sinkevičius, the Commissioner responsible.

Dec. 06, 2019

Public Future Conference 4-5 December 2019, Amsterdam

The Future is Public – Democratic Ownership of the Economy

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

Sep. 03, 2019

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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. 30, 2019

APSE

Insourcing services - more evidence and arguments from the UK

A new report by the Association for Public Service Excellence (APSE) in the UK provides further evidence of the trend towards and benefits of insourcing public services.

Oct. 31, 2018

Decent Work

World Cities Day 2018 – Decent work for prosperous local communities

Local and regional government workers across Europe and the globe provide essential public services which enable our cities and communities to prosper. Their working conditions, pay, and job security are closely interlinked with the quality and accessibility of services they provide – deficiencies in the former have a detrimental impact on the latter.

Oct. 22, 2018

Cover page report Eurodad PPS history repppeated

Report exposes further problems with public-private partnerships

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) can end up leaving citizens and the public sector facing higher costs, greater risk, less transparency and more complexity than the public sector alternative.

Apr. 30, 2018

Public sector unions clinch final deal to complete negotiations

At around 21.00 on Friday night an agreement was secured in the state sector, marking the fourth and final deal covering all public sector workers across Denmark.

Jul. 04, 2017

Reclaiming PS

Remunicipalisation becomes an unstoppable trend

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.

Feb. 02, 2017

EPSU sends solidarity to striking non-teaching staff in Portugal

(3 February 2017) EPSU has expressed support for the strike of non-teaching staff in schools across Portugal. The unions argue that these workers face precarious employment conditions and are without