Public Services

With hundreds examples of people taking control of local public services, bringing public services back in public ownership is gaining momentum across the world.

The European Commission is preparing its Industrial Policy. It needs to have a substantial social pillar and involve the trade unions.

Strong and cooperative relations with the trade unions is important to the European S&D group as we seek to implement the European Pillar of Social Rights, stressed Heléne Fritzon, vice-chair of the S&D group.

Thousands of unionists joined a European demonstration in Brussels. We ask a Fair Europe for Workers.

The newly published Guide for Trade Unionists on Adaptation to Climate Change and the world of work identifies public utilities and emergency and other public services as two of the sectors in the EU to be most impacted by climate change.

A major review of hundreds of academic studies reveals that there is no empirical evidence that the private sector is intrinsically more efficient than the public sector

Public debt crises happen more often than we think and including in developed countries. It means that a government can no longer service its debt payments.

Joint AK EUROPA / ÖGB Europabüro / EPSU / ETUC workshop on Trade 19 November 2019EPSU offices, Brussels, Belgium

Campaigning for the right to water, negotiating on information and consultation rights for central government workers, lobbying for tougher action on tax avoidance and fraud, standing up to multinationals and defending dismissed or imprisoned trade unionists … these are just some of the many

We should aim for “private sufficiency and public luxury”. These were opening remarks at the EPSU workshop on public services and trade, organised jointly with AK EUROPA, ÖGB Europabüro and ETUC on 19 November 2019 in Brussels.

On 22-23 February EPSU/ETUI organized a workshop on the European Pillar of Social Rights to assess how the Pillar can contribute to fairer, more cohesive and equal societies, including through supporting the universal provision of quality public services and strong social dialogue.

The quality of public services are a key factor in explaining differences across Europe regarding citizens’ trust in institutions.

The latest Tripartite Social Summit took place on 21 March was devoted to the follow up on the European Pillar of Social Rights in EU policy.

Twenty-nine participants from EPSU affiliates in 16 countries met in Kiljava in southern Finland at the beginning of July in a two-and-a-half day seminar on public services and privatisation.

European Commissioner Violeta Bulc responsible for transport policy was confronted with angry representatives of the various sectors in our sister Federation ETF, transport workers, when addressing their 5th Congress.