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Nov. 04, 2021

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26-27 October 2021, EPSU General Secretary Jan Willem Goudriaan, meets with the leadership of the affiliated organisations in Spain

EPSU visits its Spanish affiliates

On 26-27 October the General Secretary of the European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU), Jan Willem Goudriaan, visited Madrid to meet with the leadership of the affiliated organisations in Spain.

May. 30, 2019

APSE

Insourcing services - more evidence and arguments from the UK

A new report by the Association for Public Service Excellence (APSE) in the UK provides further evidence of the trend towards and benefits of insourcing public services.

May. 02, 2019

UK and EU flags

EPSU members working in customs and border services voice strong concerns about the UK’s lack of preparedness for Brexit

Statement by the EPSU’s standing committee for national and EU administrations

Oct. 22, 2018

Cover page report Eurodad PPS history repppeated

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.

Aug. 23, 2018

Privatisation and austerity combined in prison crisis

On 20 August the UK government was forced to take back control of a privatised prison in Birmingham in central England following a damning report by the prisons inspectorate. The prison had been run since 2011 by the G4S group, one of three multinationals that run 14 prisons in England.

Jun. 15, 2017

EPSU solidarity with London Firefighters, medical staff and other public workers over Grenfell Tower fire

Hundred people were injured and at least 17 killed in the devastating inferno of the Grenfell Tower (West London) on Wednesday 14 June.

Jan. 19, 2017

Taxes fund our public services – companies should contribute. Campaign in Switzerland

The Swiss union and EPSU affiliate VPOD/ SSP is running an imaginative campaign that stresses how taxes fund our public services and why it is important that companies contribute.

Nov. 25, 2016

EPSU solidarity with teaching assistants fighting pay cuts

Hundreds of teaching assistants in Durham, North East England, took their second period of two-day strike action this week.

Jul. 15, 2016

ETUC final statement on the next steps after the UK referendum

European trade unions fight for workers' rights in aftermath brexit.Leaders of European Trade unions in the ETUC met UK unionists to discuss the consequences of BREXIT. The extraordinary committee adopted