Jun. 20, 2011 EWC considers strategy, company finance, transport merger, health and safety and CSR (20 June 2011) The CEO of Veolia Antoine Frerot explained to members the changes in strategy of the company to ensure its longer- term growth and profitability. A concentration on
Jul. 12, 2012 Europe: Further evidence on the threat to the quality of public services Privatisation of public services is a new publication bringing together a number of studies carried out between 2007 and 2009 that examined the impact of privatisation and liberalisation on
Jul. 12, 2012 Finland: Research challenges claim that privatisation leads to increased efficiency The results of a four-year research project, "Reforming markets and organizations", challenges a number of dominant ideas about the effects of markets and competition. The project was funded by the
Jul. 12, 2012 UK: the benefits of outsourcing – where's the evidence? The university sector in the UK, and some universities in particular, are under pressure to cut costs and to outsource services.
Jul. 12, 2012 Europe: a trend to remunicipalisation? After many years when privatisation, contracting-out and outsourcing have been the dominant trends across the public services, there is now increasing evidence, particularly in the municipal sector – including water
Aug. 07, 2013 Europe: research exposes negative effects of private health Why private sector health kills more than it cures - countering arguments in favour of privatisation is a briefing paper by the PSIRU research organisation that provides a wealth of
Aug. 07, 2013 Finland: municipalities bring services back in-house (August 2013) A survey by the Soste social sector organisation aimed at senior employees in the mainly municipal social and health care sector, found more than a third saying that
Aug. 07, 2013 UK: campaigning for public services and against privatisation "We own it" is a new campaigning group set up in the UK to argue for public services and challenge the idea that the private sector can do things more
Oct. 22, 2013 Trade union training on CSR - Open call for tender (22 October 2013) ETUC has published the final report “ Corporate Social Responsibility – Union Thinking on the EU Strategy 2011-2014 for Corporate Social Responsibility”. The publication represents the final
May. 27, 2011 Joint trade union civil society paper (2010) on public procurement and social and sustainability policy objectives Evaluation of the impact and effectiveness of EU Procurement legislation and policy
Jul. 05, 2012 EPSU/Ver.di workshop on public procurement and concessions 5-6 July 2012 - Berlin, Germany
May. 21, 2015 EPSU/ETUC workshop on the implementation of the new Public Procurement Directives 21 May 2015, Brussels
Aug. 04, 2011 Access of third countries to the EU's public procurement market some comments from EPSU in response to the EC consultation on “access of third countries to the EU's public procurement market”
Oct. 17, 2011 Single market policy developments ETUC and EPSU met Commissioner Barnier on 29 September to exchange views on upcoming policy iniatives on public procurement and concessions.
Oct. 26, 2011 Network for Sustainable Public Procurement gears up for revision of the public procurement Directives (26 October 2011) On 10 October the Network made up of trade unions and social and environmental NGOs organised a workshop to take stock of the upcoming revision Sara Piller