Dec. 08, 2022 2022 - 8 December: EPSU workshop on digitalisation Brief Report of the workshop - Presentations: Social Partner Agreement on digitalisation, by Nadja Salson, EPSU; Our Digital Future - Empowering workers, ensuring union futures, by Christina Colclough, Founder Why Not Lab
Jul. 08, 2022 ‘Re-nationalisation’ of EDF a clear sign that change is needed The French government’s recent announcement that it plans to buy back 100% of EDF’s shares shows clearly that leaving essential public services to the free market simply does not work for the massive challenges ahead.
Jun. 21, 2022 EN FR NL DE EPSU commemorates the plight of public sector workers, particularly in the health and care sector Media advisory about health and care workers event outside European Parliament
Jun. 02, 2021 Valuing public services, valuing public service workers! 3 panels: #1 Public Services and delivering on human rights, #2 Trade unions, public services and public ownership, #3 Organising the fight against privatisation
Feb. 25, 2021 EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change: how ‘just’ is it? (Press Release) Yesterday, the European Commission published a new strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change intended to build ‘just resilience’ to the unavoidable effects of climate change.
Jun. 04, 2020 EPSU on-line meeting on "public procurement, Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) and concessions in times of COVID-19" Meeting documents - Presentations - other useful information
May. 12, 2020 New book released on remunicipalisation - The Future is Public Resistance to privatisation has turned into a powerful force for change.
Nov. 19, 2019 “Next generation trade and investment agreements: Upcoming challenges for public services” Joint AK EUROPA / ÖGB Europabüro / EPSU / ETUC workshop on Trade 19 November 2019EPSU offices, Brussels, Belgium
Sep. 03, 2019 EN FR DE RU UK 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
Oct. 08, 2018 2018 - 8-9 October Public service trade unions – effective intervention in the European Semester Conference
Jun. 06, 2018 2018 - 6-7 June EPSU Social Dialogue and Collective Bargaining Conference : Quality Employment and Quality Public Services
Feb. 22, 2018 Joint ETUI/EPSU course 'Quality public services, gender equality and the European Pillar of Social Rights’ REPORT of the workshop discussion & presentations
Dec. 19, 2017 EPSU feature on adaptation to climate change The heatwaves and droughts, storms and flooding that have hit Europe and other parts of the world this summer have left no doubt about the devastating consequences of extreme weather events linked to climate change.
Nov. 30, 2017 Building the European Federation of Public Service Unions The history of EPSU (1978 – 2016) by Carola Fischbach-Pyttel EPSU and ETUI have published a unique book. It is the first to describe in detail the development of a European trade union federation.
Jul. 04, 2017 Remunicipalisation becomes an unstoppable trend The latest research from the Transnational Institute, with the support of EPSU as a leading partner has been published. This report confirms what EPSU was been arguing for years, that privatisation has not worked.