Jan. 21, 2016 Landmark agreement on information and consultation rights Landmark agreement on information and consultation rights reached by TUNED, the EPSU-led trade union delegation, and EUPAE for central government.
Dec. 22, 2015 Social partners reach landmark Agreement on information and consultation rights of public employees in Europe Social Partners for Central Government Administrations TUNED - EUPAE joint press release
Jun. 05, 2015 EPSU Regional Conference for Culture Workers in Hungary (5 June 2015) EPSU Regional Conference for culture workers in Hungary Visegrad, 2-4 June The culture sector is undergoing painful restructuring. Librarians, museum workers, archivists and musicians discussed the impact
Jan. 21, 2016 "You can not strip us down further " say Hungarian Culture Workers fighting for decent pay Hungarian librarians, museum and other staff have been fighting for a decent increase in their pay. With events and actions in the whole country they draw attention to their situation
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
Mar. 08, 2016 German company RWE to axe 2,400 UK jobs. EPSU says: Respect workers' rights to information and consultation (8 March 2016) Workers, shop stewards and union officials had to read it in the newspapers: the German company RWE, operating as Npower, wants to shed a 1/5 of its
May. 27, 2011 Joint trade union civil society paper (2010) on public procurement and social and sustainability policy objectives Evaluation of the impact and effectiveness of EU Procurement legislation and policy
Jul. 05, 2012 EPSU/Ver.di workshop on public procurement and concessions 5-6 July 2012 - Berlin, Germany
May. 21, 2015 EPSU/ETUC workshop on the implementation of the new Public Procurement Directives 21 May 2015, Brussels