EWCs

Today the European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) signed an agreement with the French multinational Korian to establish a European Works Council (EWC).

The delegates discussed the establishment of a European Works Council in ORPEA, French-based multinational company in elderly care.

The German labour court of Nordhausen cancelled the decision of management of Celenus to dismiss 2 trade union delegates.

More is needed to support and enforce the rights of European Works Councils on Information and Consultation Rights, was one of the messages of a delegation of trade union leaders that met with EU Commissioner for Social affairs and Employment.

The union delegations of EPSU and IndustriAll-Europe negotiated a comprehensive agreement on labour relations with ENGIE in 2016.

Today health workers and their trade unions organise a protest and mobilisation in Berlin against the anti-union practices of the ORPEA group in Germany.

This article summarises the main topics addressed at the meeting of the EPSU Working Group Social Services on 26 February, with one focus on the transition from institutional care to community-based care and how to make this transition also work for the social care and health workforce.

The impact of the COVID-19 outbreak is unprecedented, but must not jeopardise jobs and incomes.

During this unprecedented global crisis, trade unions from all over Europe are acting united to ensure COVID-19 does not put jobs and incomes in jeopardy!

Time is running out: Concrete and rapid actions needed to enforce rights to worker involvement in anticipating and managing the COVID-19 crisis impact.

On November 26, workers in the French multinational electric utility companies ENGIE and EDF are mobilising to defend the future of their jobs, the public energy sector and to demand the suspension of the companies’ current restructuring projects.

Management of two French-based multinational environmental services companies, Suez and Veolia, are currently locked in a battle over leadership in the sector.

EPSU, together with IndustriAll Europe and the unions represented in the company, and Bertrand CAMUS, CEO of SUEZ signed the renewal of the agreement on gender equality at work.

The German worldwide operating multinational health company Fresenius is not respecting trade union and workers’ rights in all its operations.

Europe’s people want quality services for the young, the disabled, the elderly and all in need of care.