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Dec. 21, 2020

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Building our unions

Last month EPSU organised a series of online meetings on recruitment and organising with 10 of its affiliates from Romania and Moldova.

Jan. 25, 2022

2022 - 25/26 January

Defending and strengthening trade union rights in public services - Third regional online meeting in the project, 25/26 January 2022

Jan. 20, 2022

Finance Working Group looks at future

The EPSU Congress 2019 mandated the Executive Committee to determine affiliation fees for 2023 and 2024.

Jan. 18, 2022

European Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA) must focus more on Health and Social Care Workers

EPSU contribution to the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC).

Jan. 12, 2022

“Recovery, Strength and a Sense of Belonging”  Programme for the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union

We enter into the New Year and 2022 with the COVID-19 still firmly ahead of, rather than behind us as we would all have wished before the holiday break.

Jan. 12, 2022

EPSU supports call of ITUC for inquiry into the killings in Kazakhstan

Social unrest over increased prices for gas erupted in early January in several cities in Kazakhstan.

Dec. 20, 2021

EPSU wishes you a merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

The EPSU offices will be closed from 25 December to 4 January included. We look forward to being back in touch from the 5th of January 2022.

Dec. 17, 2021

Eurofound's Industrial Relations Landscape Report reinforces request for EU social dialogue in social services

(Press Release) Last week, Eurofound published its Industrial Relations Landscape Report, which compiles the information from the previous representativeness studies in the public services sectors.

Dec. 17, 2021

European Parliament demands strengthening of workers’ representation

Workers and the unions have been demanding more work place democracy. Parliament now agrees and is asking new rules and strengthening of existing ones in resolution adopted recently.

Dec. 16, 2021

Stop Cancer at Work Campaign welcomes progress made in protecting  workers from cancer and reproductive problems at work 

(Press Release) The Stop Cancer at Work Campaign today welcomes the provisional political agreement by the European Parliament and European Council to include for the first time greater protection and reference to reprotoxic substances and hazardous medicinal products

Dec. 16, 2021

2021 - 16 December

TPV Project - Webinar N°4: Digitalisation and third-party violence and harassment at work: challenges and risks

Dec. 16, 2021

First meeting of EPSU Health Care Assistant Network

The first meeting of the EPSU Health Care Assistants (HCA) Network took place on 8 December 2021 and gathered around 25 representatives from across Europe.

Dec. 14, 2021

EU finance ministers urged to resist return to austerity

EPSU General Secretary Jan Willem Goudriaan and Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) president Kevin Callinan have urged Paschal Donohoe and other EU finance ministers to reject a return to austerity fiscal measures.

Dec. 14, 2021

The Social Employers and EPSU release a joint Position Paper on the forthcoming European Care Strategy

The European Commission will propose a European Care strategy in 2022, addressing both carers and care receivers, from childcare to long-term care.

Dec. 13, 2021

Social partners demand Slovenian Presidency to respect demands EP over hazardous medical products

The negotiations over the Carcinogens and Mutagens Directive update are nearing their end.