Collective Bargaining
Collective bargaining – trends and developments
Collective bargaining is a core activity of trade unions and EPSU’s affiliates negotiate with public service employers at every level. This can range from national public-sector wide bargaining to sector and local negotiations with public sector employers but also private and non-profit providers of public services. EPSU works with the European Trade Union Confederation to try to improve collective bargaining rights for all workers across Europe. We also act as a European information point so that EPSU affiliates are aware of trends in public service negotiations. EPSU’s collective bargaining newsletter provides regular updates on developments across Europe.
EPSU-ILO Decent Work Project: report on first regional workshop in Bratislava
(28 April 2015) Twenty-five trade union representatives from EPSU affiliates in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovak Republic and Ukraine met in Bratislava on 21-23 April to discuss collective bargaining
May 2015: Modernising public administration: the implications for social dialogue and collective bargaining
This meeting was part of a project organised with the financial support of the European Commission EPSU Social Dialogue Project: The European Semester and modernisation of public administration {{Report of
Progress towards bargaining in state sector
Following a mobilisation outside the offices of the Director General of Public Administration, unions have secured an agreement to a meeting before June 15 to discuss a range of issues and prepare to convene negotiations in the General State Administration. The priority for the unions is to stop the destructive cuts in public employment which is leading to a collapse in services to citizens. They also want to recoup the loss of bonuses and the cuts and freezes in salaries over recent years. [Read more at > FES-CCOO (ES)->http://www.fsc.ccoo.es/webfsc/Inicio:849563--Exito_de_participacion_y