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(EPSU press release - 27 October 2015) The European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) calls on the European Parliament to strengthen the proposed directive on Automatic Exchange of Information (AEoI) on tax rulings with a view to : Making AEoI fully public. Trade unionists, citizens (...)
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(27 October 2015) Gloria Mills has been elected President of the ETUC Women’s Committee that took place on 22 and 23 of October in Brussels. Gloria is also the acting chair of the EPSU’s Women and Gender Equality and is the UNISON spokesperson on equality. Gloria Mills was elected President of (...)
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(26 October 2015) The Latvian unions informed us that Jevgenija Stalidzāne, the President of the Latvian trade union "Energija" has suddenly died, 21 October 2015. Jevgenija has been the chair of the union for 10 years. Jevgenija was born 17.12.1944 EPSU General Secretary Jan Willem Goudriaan (...)
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(21 October 2015) Imagine that you can not pay the metro ticket to get your kid to the hospital. The kid needs regular treatment of a psychiatrist. But cuts in your wage have left you and your family with such low income that this would wreck your budget. Cuts in wages and social security (...)
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(20 October 2015) Climate Change remains the most urgent challenge to current and future generations. If climate change is not controlled to remain near a temperature rise of 2 degrees in 2100, it could result in climate chaos. Through feed back mechanisms like melting ice caps and thawing (...)
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(20 October 2015) - how is the labour movement responding ? This was the theme of a seminar organised by Ver.di and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) for trade unionists and NGOs to analyse recently leaked documents on TISA and update each other on developments regarding TTIP and CETA. The (...)
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(Brussels, 16 October 2015) EPSU joined demonstrators from across Europe yesterday, 15th October, to make their opposition heard to the secret negotiation of the TTIP, CETA and TiSA trade deals. A recent report co-published by EPSU makes it clear how these agreements could lock our public (...)
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14 October 2015, Brussels On 14 October 2014, EPSU signed the Call to Action “Health Workers For All – All for Health Workers”. The Call to Action - available in eight languages (EN, FR, DE, ES, IT, PL and ROM) - is addressed to national and European decision-makers and aims to promote sustainable (...)
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Brussels, 14 October 2015 EPSU’s last Standing Committee “Health and Social Services” held on 24 September 2015 in Brussels brought together 56 colleagues from 35 affiliates from 22 countries, from Ireland to Bulgaria and from Finland to Spain. Colleagues discussed and approved the progress made (...)
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Brussels, 14 October 2015 EPSU’s Working Group “Social Services” on 23 September 2015 was attended by 44 colleagues from 14 countries and from 30 affiliates and four guest speakers. It was built around four topics: 1) child care (services), 2) long-term/elderly care and personal and household (...)
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(13 October 2015) Young trade unionists from over 20 public service unions across Europe met in Madrid last week (6/10/2015). 17 countries were represented in a meeting to discuss the future objectives of the network. Eddie Stam, an experienced trade union organizer from Abvakabo-FNV in the (...)
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(12 October 2015) A quartet of Tunisian civil society organisations, including the trade union organisation UGTT, a member of PSI, have won the Nobel Peace Prize for 2015. “We were expecting this in 2014 when UGTT was first nominated for the prize, so we are very pleased to hear today’s news that (...)
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(12 October 2015) General Secretary Jan Willem Goudriaan committed EPSU’s support to the opposition against the proposed SUP Directive. This directive was discussed at the recent European Works Council Coordinators Network meeting in Brussels. The SUP – otherwise known as the Directive on (...)
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(Press release- 12 October 2015) Public services in the EU are under threat from transatlantic trade agreements that could endanger citizens’ rights to basic services like water, health, and energy for the sake of corporate profits, according to a new report (attached below) released today by an (...)
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(12 October 2015) Two bomb attacks killed 86 or more people (This article was first published on EPSU’s Facebook, the official number of people killed has risen to 95. Others speak of 128) in the center of Ankara. Hundreds are injured. They were participating in a peace rally Saturday morning 10 (...)
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(6 October 2015 - EPSU Statement) EPSU commissioned a briefing on the social and economic benefits of investing into good quality childcare and early years education to the Labour Research Department (LRD). The briefing gives an overview over cost-benefit studies that demonstrate the social (...)
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On Friday 25 September 2015, the UN’s new 2030 Agenda was adopted in the presence of the world’s top leaders at a special session of the Annual General Assembly of the United Nations. This year also marks the 70th Anniversary of the United Nations, which lends additional momentum to this new (...)
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