Jul. 12, 2012 Europe: Further evidence on the threat to the quality of public services Privatisation of public services is a new publication bringing together a number of studies carried out between 2007 and 2009 that examined the impact of privatisation and liberalisation on
Jul. 12, 2012 Finland: Research challenges claim that privatisation leads to increased efficiency The results of a four-year research project, "Reforming markets and organizations", challenges a number of dominant ideas about the effects of markets and competition. The project was funded by the
Jul. 12, 2012 UK: the benefits of outsourcing – where's the evidence? The university sector in the UK, and some universities in particular, are under pressure to cut costs and to outsource services.
Jul. 12, 2012 Europe: a trend to remunicipalisation? After many years when privatisation, contracting-out and outsourcing have been the dominant trends across the public services, there is now increasing evidence, particularly in the municipal sector – including water
Aug. 07, 2013 Europe: research exposes negative effects of private health Why private sector health kills more than it cures - countering arguments in favour of privatisation is a briefing paper by the PSIRU research organisation that provides a wealth of
Aug. 07, 2013 Finland: municipalities bring services back in-house (August 2013) A survey by the Soste social sector organisation aimed at senior employees in the mainly municipal social and health care sector, found more than a third saying that
Aug. 07, 2013 UK: campaigning for public services and against privatisation "We own it" is a new campaigning group set up in the UK to argue for public services and challenge the idea that the private sector can do things more
Aug. 03, 2018 Defending and promoting public services - EPSU/ETUI seminar 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.
Nov. 30, 2017 Building the European Federation of Public Service Unions The history of EPSU (1978 – 2016) by Carola Fischbach-Pyttel EPSU and ETUI have published a unique book. It is the first to describe in detail the development of a European trade union federation.
Jul. 04, 2017 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.
Dec. 19, 2017 EPSU feature on adaptation to climate change The heatwaves and droughts, storms and flooding that have hit Europe and other parts of the world this summer have left no doubt about the devastating consequences of extreme weather events linked to climate change.
Sep. 03, 2019 EN FR DE RU UK 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
Dec. 06, 2019 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.
Mar. 03, 2011 UK: hospital cleaning brought in house in Scotland, Wales, N. Ireland (May 2011) In the 1980s, the Thatcher government in the UK introduced compulsory tendering of all cleaning and catering work in hospitals throughout the UK. This was bitterly fought at
Mar. 03, 2011 Hungary: Court supports Pecs decision to terminate Suez water contract (May 2011) A Hungarian arbitration court ruled in March 2010 that the city council of Pecs was legally entitled to terminate its water service contract with the multinational Suez Environnement