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TPVH 3rd Negotiations meeting, 29 April 2024 Brussels Belgium

TPVH 3rd Negotiations meeting, 29 April 2024

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Jun. 13, 2023

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EPSU backs firefighters and care staff in latest industrial action

EPSU has sent solidarity greetings to two affiliates who are the latest public service unions to take industrial action to tackle staffing shortages and win better pay and conditions.

Feb. 16, 2023

verdi actions February 2023 photo by Kay Herschelmann

Germany: warning strikes and negotiations for pay increase

EPSU sent solidarity greetings for ver.di negotiations in federal and local government and for the warning strikes being organised to support those negotiations.

Sep. 23, 2022

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Federations agree next steps on trade union rights

Meeting in Skopje in North Macedonia on 22 September, public service trade unions from across Europe agreed to continue to work together to defend and strengthen trade union rights for employees, civil servants and all uniformed staff, from firefighters and health workers to police and military personnel.

Sep. 20, 2021

Strengthening TU rights

Fighting for trade union rights for all public service workers

Public service trade unionists from across the Mediterranean region met online last week (14-15 September) to discuss the challenges they face in asserting their fundamental rights to organise, negotiate and take strike action.

Oct. 27, 2020

Germany: latest agreement to boost pay in health and care

After intensive negotiations over the weekend, public services union ver.di has negotiated a new collective agreement covering 2.3 million workers in municipal and federal government with specific measures benefiting employees in health and social care.

Oct. 15, 2019

EPSU Standing Committee on Local and Regional Government members supporting French firefighters 15 October action

French firefighters demand more staffing, higher pay, and better possibilities for career development

Firefighting organisations are on strike today in France, in continued demand for better working conditions and increased funding.

Sep. 26, 2019

EPSU Congress June 2019 Programme of Action leaflet

EPSU Congress : Programme of Action

This programme of action highlights the main priorities for EPSU over the next Congress period and is set out on the basis of three main themes

Nov. 30, 2018

2018: a challenging year of action and negotiation across the public services

This year has seen some important negotiating successes for public service unions but also continuing struggles in some countries where austerity continues to bite.

Oct. 09, 2018

EPSU Standing Committee on Local and Regional Government, 4 October 2018, Brussels

Decent work and “pay change” on agenda for Local Government workers

Members of EPSU’s Local and Regional Government Standing Committee met on 4th October in Brussels to discuss timely matters that concern the 17 million workers in Local and Regional Governments across Europe.

Feb. 02, 2018

EPSU supports Italian affiliates mobilisation to speed up negotiations

It is now 14 months since EPSU’s Italian affiliates signed a framework agreement covering public sector workers.

Dec. 19, 2017

PUBLIC SERVICES CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION COVER

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.

Oct. 17, 2017

Solidarity with Italian firefighters

Italian firefighters are demonstrating for better pay and pensions, for more funding for the fire services and for improved staffing.

Jun. 27, 2017

What is Green Collective Bargaining?

In 1987, the United Nations published the Brundtland Report which argued that sustainable development to tackle climate change should be based on three pillars - economic, social and environmental.

Jan. 31, 2017

EPSU backs striking municipal workers in Turkey

(31 January 2017) Today EPSU sent a message of solidarity to the Genel-İş municipal workers' union whose members are on strike in Karabağlar, a district of İzmir province in western