Migration

(24 October 2016) The new General Secretary of CGIL FP Serena Sorrentino explained some of the ongoing challenges for Italian public service workers in the first meeting with the EPSU general secretary. Workers have seen years of wage freezes, under investment and lack of staff, increasing pressures

(16 September 2016) The number of people seeking asylum and a safe place is growing again in Italy and Greece. The European Commission proposed for the Member States to assist both countries by taking up refugees by sharing fairly asylum responsibility and receiving more refugees. This is not

(12 September 2016) The ILO took a big step forward to protect the rights of migrant workers with the adoption of guidance for fair recruitment, 7 September 2016. The guidelines were adopted in the Tripartite Technical Meeting of Experts to Develop Guidance on Fair Recruitment. This brings together

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 a statement that calls for an end to austerity. We ask for more investment in public services

Following the shooting of Syria refugees by turkish border guards ETUC has called on the council to cancel the agreement with Turkey over the treatment of refugees :"The European Trade Union Confederation has called for the immediate suspension of the EU-Turkey Agreement on refugees following the

(20 June 2016) On World Refugee Day, EPSU reaffirms that human beings are not tradable commodities, and that the right to safe haven is an international human right as laid down in the UN Refugee Convention that came out of Europe following the Second World War.We repeat out rejection of the “one-in

Europe’s union leaders meet several times a year, where we discuss social, economic and political developments across Europe. We learn from each other and take account of problems workers face in different countries and sectors. We agree our priorities and campaigns to move Europe in another

(Brussels, 27 May 2016) With more than 60 million people fleeing war, terror and abject poverty, the world faces the biggest refugee crisis since the Second World War. And yet, argue the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) in a statement

On 25 April EPSU and CEMR jointly presented to the Liaison Forum - a body which brings together social partners in all the different EU sectoral social dialogue Committees - the activities carried out by social dialogue committee for local and regional government to support the integration of

(18 December 2015) Violent conflict, human rights violations, poverty and the rising frequency of natural disasters linked to climate change are forcing men, women and children to flee their homes at a rate never before seen. Nearly 60 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced due to conflict

{Migration policies at local level} (26 February 2016) In 2015, Europe faced the biggest refugee crisis since the end of World War II. By the end of August 2015, 10 countries with the highest number of asylum seekers received more then 548.596 asylum applications compared to the 571.000 during 2014

(17 December 2014) Public Services International (PSI) marks December 18th – International Migrants Day, with continued vigour and commitment to fight for [decent work and social protection for migrant workers->http://www.world-psi.org/en/issue/migration]. Many workers involved in the delivery of

{{EPSU Executive Committee statement, 29 April 2015}} Meeting in Brussels, European leaders of public service unions held a moment of silence for the 800 hundreds people who died in the Mediterranean sea on 19 April in the hope of finding a safe haven or a better life in Europe. This came at the

Second European Conference of Trade Union Services for Migrants 15-16 June 2015 Brussels REPORT This conference was organised by ETUC to expose the results accomplished by the network of [Union Migrant Net->http://www.unionmigrantnet.eu/Pages/SelectLanguage.aspx?c=1], and to discuss its future

EPSU/PSI statement to leaders of the EU and Western Balkans on the refugee crisis. (Brussels, 11 September 2015) At the occasion of the Extraordinary EU Justice and Interior affairs Council on 14 September, we, the European Public Service Unions, representing 8 million public service workers across