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Jan. 20, 2020

German companies are among the world’s leading tax avoiders

(Press Release) The Fresenius case: Health company avoids taxes just like Amazon and Google.

Health

Tax justice

Jan. 15, 2020

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More public money needed in Just Transition Fund

The European Commission has announced today that the just transition fund will include €7.5 billion of “fresh money”.

Energy

Environment/Climate Change

Dec. 11, 2019

The European New Green Deal should move away from market-based solutions!

The European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) welcomes the draft Green New Deal of the European Commission as a holistic approach to combat climate change.

Energy

Environment/Climate Change

Latest newsletters

Building trade union pressure to make more of the Commission proposals

The Commission launched a series of new policy consultations this week. These cover fair minimum wages, the Just transition mechanism and funding for the Green Deal, the European Pillar of Social Rights and the road map on closing the gender pay gap thro

EPSU appeals the judgement of the EU General Court
Croatian unions: higher wages and stronger bargaining a key priority. Supporting the Ukrainian unions
More public money needed in Just Transition Fund
Is the proposed Transition Fund really just?
Commission disappoints with its “fair wage” consultation paper

As the year draws to a close…

The year ends with the news that Boris Johnson’s Conservatives have won a large majority in the UK parliament. Leaving the EU was his central pledge and this will now happen by 31 January next year.

Europe’s public health systems: death by a thousand cuts
Large health sector strike in Northern Ireland
Trade union movement raises concerns about the Labour Law in Ukraine
EPSU challenges Brussels consensus on market-based solutions to fight climate breakdown
EPSU expresses solidarity with actions of the Italian public service unions

Green New Deal – Not Social yet

And then it was there – the Green New Deal as proposed by the European Commission.

EPSU reaction on Council’s gender-equal economies: Legislation remains crucial to close the gender and pensions gap
The European New Green Deal should move away from market-based solutions!
Obscure Energy Treaty could thwart EU's Green Deal
Massive actions, demonstrations and strikes to protest pension reforms in France yesterday
Brussels becomes a Blue Community! Committed to less plastic and the right to water

epsucob@NEWS

epsucob@NEWS is EPSU’s newsletter covering developments in collective bargaining and pay and conditions in the public services across Europe. As well as general editions, EPSU also produces some special issues focusing on key topics such as minimum wages, trade union rights, pensions and economic governance. Further special issues are planned for the future. Please send us short updates on collective bargaining in your country so that we can improve the coverage of the newsletter. You can send them to rpond@epsu.org.