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Several questions have been raised regarding upcoming EPSU meetings. More information in this article.

Press Release - EPSU welcomes the vote on the Drinking Water Directive recast in the European Parliament today as small step forward to realise the Human Right to Water in the EU.

An open letter sent to Members of the European Parliament's Special Committee on Beating Cancer outlines the significant health risks caused by regular exposure to carcinogenic, mutagenic and reprotoxic drugs.

Today, Jan Willem Goudriaan, EPSU general secretary, took part in webinar jointly organised by the ETUC /ETUFs and MEP Gabriele Bischoff, in the framework of the action week for more democracy at work.

The EPSU Executive Committee expresses its support for the Italian public services unions that will strike on 9 December to demand recognition for their role and work during the pandemic and for the government to renew the public service workers’ collective agreement that expired more than a year ago.

Yesterday, the EPSU Executive Committee received a report about the negotiations between the Special Negotiating Body and the French multinational company ORPEA.

Together with 90 other organisations EPSU highlighted the conflict of interest in the awarding of a public policy contract to BlackRock Investment Management in April this year.

The impact of the Covid 19 pandemic is not gender neutral. In a world that keeps discriminating against women, at work and in society, women were hit harder by the sanitary emergency.

Over the past two weeks 27 trade union leaders and officers from 10 unions in Moldova and Romania have taken part in a series of organising and recruitment workshops. Following an initial webinar to discuss organising and recruitment strategies, the unions spent time drafting their own strategies

Observed all-cause mortality among older people underlines the severe impact of COVID-19 in this population group. Residents in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) are one of the most vulnerable populations, and particular focus should be given to the prevention of SARS-CoV-2 introduction and to

In the framework of the Right to Energy Forum (more information below), EPSU will organise a workshop on “Going public: the way forward to end energy poverty? The failure of energy market liberalisation”

Today, the 20th November is World Children’s Day, marking the adoption of the UN Declaration of the Rights of the Child.

Press Release - Today the European trade union federations, EPSU and industriAll, and the industry association Eurogas, adopted a common position on the Just Transition in the Green Deal.

Today, a ground-breaking study on the scope and impact of international tax avoidance has been launched by the Tax Justice Network together with Public Services International (EPSU's Global Labour Federation) and the Global Alliance for Tax Justice.

On November 26, workers in the French multinational electric utility companies ENGIE and EDF are mobilising to defend the future of their jobs, the public energy sector and to demand the suspension of the companies’ current restructuring projects.