2015-10-30

(26 October 2015) The Latvian unions informed us that Jevgenija Stalidzāne, the President of the Latvian trade union "Energija" has suddenly died, 21 October 2015. Jevgenija has been the chair of the union for 10 years. Jevgenija was born 17.12.1944 EPSU General Secretary Jan Willem Goudriaan "

Brussels, 14 October 2015 {{EPSU’s Working Group “Social Services”}} on 23 September 2015 was attended by 44 colleagues from 14 countries and from 30 affiliates and four guest speakers. It was built around {{four topics}}: 1) child care (services), 2) long-term/elderly care and personal and

Brussels, 14 October 2015 EPSU’s last {{Standing Committee “Health and Social Services”}} held on 24 September 2015 in Brussels brought together 56 colleagues from 35 affiliates from 22 countries, from Ireland to Bulgaria and from Finland to Spain. Colleagues discussed and approved the progress made

(27 October 2015) Gloria Mills has been elected President of the ETUC Women’s Committee that took place on 22 and 23 of October in Brussels. Gloria is also the acting chair of the EPSU’s Women and Gender Equality and is the UNISON spokesperson on equality. Gloria Mills was elected President of the

(13 October 2015) Young trade unionists from over 20 public service unions across Europe met in Madrid last week (6/10/2015). 17 countries were represented in a meeting to discuss the future objectives of the network. Eddie Stam, an experienced trade union organizer from Abvakabo-FNV in the

(12 October 2015) General Secretary Jan Willem Goudriaan committed EPSU’s support to the opposition against the proposed SUP Directive. This directive was discussed at the recent European Works Council Coordinators Network meeting in Brussels. The SUP – otherwise known as the Directive on single

(Brussels, 16 October 2015) EPSU joined demonstrators from across Europe yesterday, 15th October, to make their opposition heard to the secret negotiation of the TTIP, CETA and TiSA trade deals. [A recent report co-published by EPSU->http://www.epsu.org/a/11731] makes it clear how these agreements

Press Release – Brussels, 21st October 2015 – The European Public Service Union (EPSU) welcomes today’s landmark decision by Competition Commissioner Vestager that the tax rulings granted to Starbucks in the Netherlands and Fiat Finance in Luxembourg constitute illegal state aid. It sends a strong

(EPSU press release - 27 October 2015) The European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) calls on the European Parliament to strengthen the proposed directive on Automatic Exchange of Information (AEoI) on tax rulings with a view to: -* Making AEoI fully public. Trade unionists, citizens and

(21 October 2015) Imagine that you can not pay the metro ticket to get your kid to the hospital. The kid needs regular treatment of a psychiatrist. But cuts in your wage have left you and your family with such low income that this would wreck your budget. Cuts in wages and social security

(20 October 2015) Climate Change remains the most urgent challenge to current and future generations. If climate change is not controlled to remain near a temperature rise of 2 degrees in 2100, it could result in climate chaos. Through feed back mechanisms like melting ice caps and thawing

(20 October 2015) - how is the labour movement responding ? This was the theme of a seminar organised by Ver.di and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) for trade unionists and NGOs to analyse recently leaked documents on TISA and update each other on developments regarding TTIP and CETA. The seminar took

On 14 October 2014, EPSU signed the Call to Action “Health Workers For All – All for Health Workers”. The [Call to Action->https://interact.healthworkers4all.eu/display/CTA/European+Call+to+Action] - available in eight languages (EN, FR, DE, ES, IT, PL and ROM) - is addressed to national and

(Press Release – 12 October 2015) Report "Public services under attack - TTIP, CETA, and the secretive collusion between business lobbyists and trade negotiators"

(6 October 2015 - EPSU Statement)EPSU commissioned a briefing on the social and economic benefits of investing into good quality childcare and early years education to the Labour Research Department (LRD). The briefing gives an overview over cost-benefit studies that demonstrate the social and