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Jun. 30, 2001

Resolution on Trade in Services

The European Regional Executive Committee of Public Services International, EUREC, meeting in Geneva on April 18-19, 2001, having discussed the World Trade Organisation, WTO's, General Agreement on Trade in Services, GATS, adopts the following policy:

Feb. 17, 2003

PSI-EPSU team met with Pascal Lamy, the Eur Union Trade Commissioner, to discuss our concerns GATS negotiations on February 17, 2003.

GATS, PSI-EPSU AND PASCAL LAMY - 17 February 2003

A PSI-EPSU team of eight elected and appointed officers met with Pascal Lamy, the European Union Trade Commissioner, to discuss our concerns about the current GATS negotiations on February 17, 2003.

May. 26, 2004

Verdi negotiators discuss coordination of collective bargaining in Europe

The German union Verdi brought its negotiators together to discuss the coordination of collective bargaining in Europe. Examples of European coordination such as in EPSU (wage coordination guideline, EPSUCOB@, social

Aug. 09, 2004

ETUC Summer School on Collective Bargaining, 5-7 September 2004

The ETUC Coordination of Collective Bargaining Committee started its work with the traditional summer school. Issues on the agenda: overview of developments, collective bargaining in new member states, working time

Aug. 17, 2004

Working hours information from IG Metall

IG Metall Department for Collective Bargaining - 2004-02-23 - Sectoral agreement pages 1-2 - Siemens agreement pages 3-4 - Daimler-Chrysler agrement pages 5-6 {{Collective Agreement on Pay and Working Time Flexibility

Sep. 30, 2004

Working time - the key issues

- Recent trends - Public sector across Europe - Longer hours in German public sector - What happened at Siemens and Daimler-Chrysler - Working time directive Over the last few

May. 28, 2005

General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) - Mode 4 negotiations (movement of physical persons)

European Economic and Social Committee, Group II - Selection of the opinions adopted by the EESC Plenary session on 8 and 9 June 2005

May. 29, 2005

OUTSOURCING Consultation

EN - FR - GE - SP - SWE - BG - CZ - HU - RO - SC - {{Draft agreement on outsourcing - Draft code of practice on

May. 30, 2005

ETUC calls on Commission to reconsider its position over GATS

The ETUC has requested the Commission to reconsider its current negotiating position in GATS and to change its negotiating tactics.

Jun. 05, 2005

EU Benchmark approach rejected by trade unions

The European Commission has proposed to follow a benchmark approach in the GATS negotiations of the WTO. The EU non-paper argues that there is a crisis in the GATS negotiations

Jun. 14, 2005

EPSU Questionnaire: Outsourcing in the Public Services

Questionnaire FSESP: L'externalisation dans les services publics EPSU Fragebogen: Outsourcing im öffentlichen Dienst Cuestionario de la FSESP: Externalización de los servicios públicos EPSU kartläggning: Outsourcing inom offentliga tjänster {EPSU affiliates

Jun. 25, 2005

Stop the GATS power play against citizens of the world ! joint statement

The trade unions and many NGOs worked on a joint statement to demand that negotiators on GATS get serious on taking workers and citizens interests into account, and to prevent that countries get pressured into accepting unfair deals.

Jul. 30, 2005

Collective Bargaining - useful links

- [Online European industrial relations dictionary->www.eurofound.europa.eu/areas/industrialrelations/dictionary/] ETUC web pages on: - [collective bargaining->http://www.etuc.org/r/792] - [social dialogue->http://www.etuc.org/r/59] [ETUC web pages on key legal cases on collective bargaining->http://www.etuc.org/r/846] [ETUI page on key

Sep. 18, 2005

Report from ETUC collective bargaining committee

The ETUC collective bargaining committee met recently (12 October 2005) to discuss the initial results of its annual survey of collective bargaining around Europe. Also on the agenda were the

Sep. 25, 2005

Shrinking gains of trade liberalisation

We are often told that trade liberalisation is positive and a win-win situation for developing as well as developed countries. That is why the round of negotiations to lower trade