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TPVH 3rd Negotiations meeting, 29 April 2024 Brussels Belgium

TPVH 3rd Negotiations meeting, 29 April 2024

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Oct. 04, 2022

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Outsourcing is ‘hollowing out’ public administrations: new EPSU report

Press release (embargoed until 5pm) Accenture, McKinsey, PwC, EY... we're becoming increasingly reliant on consultancies.

Apr. 28, 2021

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NEA and LRG Statement: Art and culture workers are essential to a fairer society

Arts and culture are amongst the sectors worst hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, pushing many workers from precarity to poverty and putting in jeopardy the future development of many cities.

Apr. 12, 2021

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EPSU raises concerns about the termination of employment contracts in European Asylum Support Office

EPSU has sent a letter to European Commission representatives about the termination of employment contracts of 40 temporary workers at EASO operations in Italy.

Nov. 09, 2020

Call for tender

Tender for research on privatisation

Tender Specifications for Research on scale of and responses to privatisation in central government and the European Commission

Apr. 14, 2020

Solidarity

Hungary: EPSU backs culture workers in protest against ending public service status

EPSU has today sent a letter to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Minister for Human Resources, Miklós Kásler, to protest over government plans to change the legal status of culture workers – those working in museums, libraries, archives and public cultural institutes.

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

Sep. 03, 2019

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Public and Private Sector efficiency

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

Aug. 06, 2019

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Analysis finds Commission study hinting at further push on privatisation

Research on public assets published by the European Commission fails to capture realistically their role in society and the economy according to a briefing produced for EPSU.

Jun. 19, 2019

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EPSU sends solidarity to striking outsourced workers in UK

Yesterday (18 June) EPSU sent its support to outsourced workers on the second day of their five-day strike over pay.

Oct. 22, 2018

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Report exposes further problems with public-private partnerships

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) can end up leaving citizens and the public sector facing higher costs, greater risk, less transparency and more complexity than the public sector alternative.

Sep. 18, 2018

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Report on the Privatisation and Private Sector Involvement and other Forms of State Disengagement in Migration and Refugee Services

(18 September 2018) The European Public Service Union (EPSU) and Public Services International (PSI) commissioned a research to inform both our work in influencing policy on global governance of migration

May. 11, 2017

Quality Employment and Quality Public Services in the Prison Services Sector conference 10 May 2017

Austerity has a negative impact on Europe’s prison services and disheartens staff

Europe’s austerity policies continue to have an extremely negative impact on employment conditions within the prison service sector.