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(26 August 2014)
On August 12th we celebrated International Youth Day and this year was
linked to highlighting the issues of mental health for young people,
specially young workers. The International organisation of EPSU, Public
Services International (PSI) made an action linking our fight
for (...)
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(25 August 2014)
The Palestinian public service unions have written to PSI detailing the
scale of the destruction and loss of human life in Gaza. PSI has issued a
call for solidarity in response. "According to the Gaza public
sector unions’ report, hospitals and ambulances have been
targeted, (...)
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(20 August 2014)
Hans Bruyninckx, the director of the European Environment Agency, has
urged EU ministers to carry out fiscal reforms, such as moving tax from
labour to activities that damage the environment. The EEA issued
environment and employment ministers this week with a report
arguing (...)
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(20 August 2014)
To answer to the serious challenges in the years ahead for the UK to
ensure that the lights stay on, homes are kept warm and environmental
obligations linked to climate change are respected, UNISON has sought to
find a suitable policy response. It addresses different
aspects (...)
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(6 August 2014)
EPSU is extremely concerned to learn about SIPTU’s dispute with Greyhound
Recycling and Recovery waste company owned by the brothers Michael and
Brian Buckley, and which has led to workers being locked out since 17th
June. It is not acceptable that the company’s management (...)
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(1 August 2014,
Brussels) Please find below a short update regarding developments with
the EU- US trade negotiations (TTIP), with a focus on public services
issues and also including some points on the EU- Canada (CETA) and the
plurilateral services (TiSA) negotiations. The note covers
also (...)
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(18 July 2014 -
European Trade Union Federations Joint Press Release) The six sectoral
European Trade Union Federations (ETUFs), uniting over 30 million workers
and organisers through the “Enough of their crisis – back to our future”
campaign, appreciate the fact that the newly elected European (...)
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(17 July 2014) It
have been very busy months for the EWC members in GDF-Suez, in the first
half of 2014. But the time and energy they had to put into two
restructuring plans in the company returned in good results. In two
consecutive restructuring operations the EWC in GDF-Suez asked and
got (...)
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(17 July 2014)
"Defend the legitimate rights of the working class within a
progressive social dimension; promoting a development agenda that puts
industrialisation, environmental justice and human progress for equitable
and fair growth models at the heart of our common commitments" is
one of (...)
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EPSU and PSI echo
the call of the UN Security Council as the number of killed civilians
grows. EPSU and PSI call on the Israeli government and Palestinian
parties in Gaza to immediately cease fire and prevent further escalation
of the conflict which has already killed 1 Israeli and 200 (...)
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