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The schools started in many countries on 1 September with the health and safety of students, parents, teachers and support staff a big concern.

Due to the Corona pandemic it is a strange summer for many. For workers in health and care the challenge of dealing with COVID19 patients remains prevalent.

Ensuring workers were safe and equipped with personal protective equipment was one of the first priorities of trade unions in the early days of the pandemic.

Last week EPSU’s collective bargaining group discussed the position of the ETUC on fair minimum wages. Not all agree on the approach to take.

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The European Commission will publish its Recovery Plan in the next two weeks which will be linked to the European Union budget.

Millions of workers will celebrate 1 May 2020 in confinement. We won’t be meeting in the squares or on the streets, nor in marches and demonstrations. The pandemic makes that impossible.

As you are working extremely hard to keep Europe’s public services going with many of you even being infected or losing co-workers, comrades or family members, this crisis underlines that we have no use for the wealthy.

The outbreak of the Corona virus pandemic is hitting workers and our communities hard. For now EPSU has cancelled its meetings until mid-April. This is necessary for many reasons, not least the protection of the health of staff and participants.

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak is dominating the news. Behind the headlines are the patients and their families, the thousands in quarantine, and the many more in villages and towns who see their lives uprooted.

A combination of public opinion, trade unions, water activists and others has blocked the privatisation of a water company in Jyväskylä in Finland.