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PSI, the global sister organisation of EPSU, has condemned the unilateral decision of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to strip UN unions of negotiating rights and suspend the Staff Management Committee. Workers in many United Nations organisations, including the Geneva-based International Labour Organisation, have been trade union members for decades with PSI representing members of the Staff Union at the ILO.
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EPSU affiliates were among the members of a PSI delegation that met with United Nations staff in New York on 2 October. The delegation was organised in response to the UN decision to remove recognition from the UN staff union. There was a discussion about how PSI and its affiliates can best support UN workers and their unions nationally and globally. The meeting is seen as the start of a series of joint strategizing sessions. The unions have been pushing to resume talks with UN management but so far without progress. [Read more at > PSI->http://www.world-psi.org/en/psi-delegates-bring
