Remunicipalisation, Transparency & Corruption

Together with a group of organisations that defend whistleblowers and the Whistleblowers International Network (WIN), EPSU has demanded the Ukrainian President to reverse amendments that would weaken a law that protects whistleblowers.

EPSU has signed an open letter to the upcoming Portuguese EU Council Presidency on corporate influence and transparency.

Together with 90 other organisations EPSU highlighted the conflict of interest in the awarding of a public policy contract to BlackRock Investment Management in April this year.

In the framework of the Right to Energy Forum (more information below), EPSU will organise a workshop on “Going public: the way forward to end energy poverty? The failure of energy market liberalisation”

A group of private water operators tried to block the discussion of the report on “The Privatisation of Water and Sanitation Services” of the United Nations (U.N.). 150 organisations including EPSU and PSI intervened to keep it on the agenda.

A group of organisations have sent a letter to European Commission President von der Leyen, Executive Vice-President Timmermans, Vice-President Jourová, and Commissioner-designate McGuinness to urge them to address the matter of “revolving doors”

After the remunicipalisation of water services in Mafra in 2016 (Portugal), another Portuguese town has announced now that is going public.

UK public service union UNISON has launched a campaign to bring all outsourced workers at four hospitals in Liverpool back in-house.

In an open letter, which has received the support of 600 organisations from more than 90 countries plus European and international organisations, EPSU calls on governments and the EU to take action to prevent the wave of ISDS cases that put at risk an effective response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Over 30 representatives from 14 countries met online last week (18 June) to debate how to bring public services back in-house. The meeting was part of a project involving EPSU and being coordinated by the trade union-backed Syndex consultancy.

Defenders of the public interest are often confronted with socalled gag lawsuits.

Resistance to privatisation has turned into a powerful force for change.

In the past months, EPSU has sought to influence the debate around decarbonisation of the European economy and the need for a just transition.

EPSU and several other trade unions and organisations have sent an open letter to the Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković, Croatian MEPs and the Croatian Permanent Representation to the EU

With hundreds examples of people taking control of local public services, bringing public services back in public ownership is gaining momentum across the world.