(27 April 2015) EPSU has sent a letter to Commissioners Juncker and Stylianides, to raise its concern that the workers perspective has not been included into the organization of this year’s European Civil Protection Forum.
Without including these many thousand workers into policy-making of response, civil protection, and recovery, the Commission’s institutional goals and objectives to put forward a sound policy in these areas will remain unrealized. Their policies largely ignore the realities of public sector workers. Public Services International (PSI), the international sister of EPSU had already raised its concerns at the UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai in Japan on 16 March 2015 delivering a clear message that by excluding public sector workers and trade unions from the process of policy-making, not only the rights of workers are not respected but at the same time the Institutions exclude themselves from the expertise workers have in this field.
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