Local and Regional Government
Local services are, by definition, at the front line of public services. Users of these services come into direct contact with the men and women that provide them, be they fire-fighters, culture workers, librarians, archivists, municipal police, social services workers, teachers, cleaners, waste collectors, community liaison personnel or local administrators. EPSU represents local and regional government workers across Europe and is committed to ensuring high quality and efficient public services supported by a well-trained and skilled work force and decent working conditions.
Austerity measures and remunicipalisation, digitalisation of local services, the impact of trade agreements on local services, and ensuring socially responsible procurement are key policy challenges to this sector addressed in the frame of EPSU's Standing Committee Local and Regional Government.
EPSU is also the recognised European social partner organisation for workers in local and regional government throughout the European Union and covers approximately 17 million workers.
Eva-Lotta Nilsson (Vision, Sweden) is the President of the EPSU Standing Committee for Local and Regional Government (LRG). Paola Panzeri is the contact person in EPSU (Policy Staff – Local and Regional Government, Gender Equality, Firefighters) for the sector.
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"Policies, strategies and implementation: How issues of third party violence have been tackled in practice by social partners in the commerce, hospital, private security and local and regional government sectors"
Strengthening social dialogue in the local and regional government sector in the 'new' Member States and candidate countries
REPORT prepared for CEMR and EPSU by ECOTEC with the financial support of the European Commission Introduction Aims and objectives of the study The aim of this study
EPSU/CEMR organised a joint Conference on social dialogue in the new Member States/candidate countries on 14 October in Budapest
(28 October 2005) The Conference discussed the findings of a [survey->art1452] carried out by ECOTEC, with the support of the European Commission. Developing social dialogue in the local and regional