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(24 November
2015) Collective bargaining across the public sector in Italy has been
frozen for six years and EPSU sends it support to all the public service
unions who will be joining the national demonstration in Rome on 28
November. While many governments and public sector employers
across (...)
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Brussels/Helsinki,
18 November 2015 On 10 November 2015, HOSPEEM and EPSU – with the support
of the Finnish EPSU affiliates JHL, Superliitto and Tehy – organised a
conference in Helsinki aimed at supporting a broad fact-finding on the
main risk factors of psycho-social risks and stress at work in (...)
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This was the
question addressed by a conference on TTIP organised on 17 November by
the Economic and Social Committee (EESC), European Commission and
Luxembourg Presidency. The Trade Commissioner Ms Malstrom stressed the
economic benefits of TTIP while acknowledging that instruments such as
the (...)
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(Press Release –
17 November 2015) McDonald’s inability to give a straight answer about
its corporate structure and how much tax it pays further highlights the
need for a full investigation into McDonald’s tax affairs. McDonald’s was
one of eleven multinationals grilled by the European (...)
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(12 November
2015) The UN is currently considering a resolution on the Human Rights to
water and sanitation. There is discussion to split the human right to
water and sanitation to ensure that the right to sanitation get’s more
focus. Worldwide 2.4 billion people lack proper access. It is one
of (...)
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Press Release -
10th November 2015 G20 countries are the biggest losers when US
multinationals avoid paying taxes where they do business. This is the
main finding of a new report on the global tax system, ‘Still Broken,’ released
by the Tax Justice Network, Oxfam, Global Alliance for Tax (...)
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(9 November 2015)
Piketty and MEPs join trade union leaders in writing to EU governments to
demand public country-by-country reporting, whilst civil society makes
voice heard in support of tax whistleblowers. Pressure is building on the
European Commission and EU governments to extend (...)
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(9 November 2015)
EPSU sends its solidarity greetings to the ADEDY and GSEE trade union
confederations for the general strike planned for 12 November. We send
our support to the Greek unions in challenging the policies that the
government will be implementing as part of the latest bail-out (...)
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(9 November 2015)
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimates over 700.000
refugees have come across the seas to Europe so far this year. They fled
war, hunger and poverty. Speaking at the EPSU Executive Committee meeting
Luca Visentini stressed many more refugees will seek to (...)
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(6 November 2015)
The European Commission has proposed a directive which would make it
easier for companies to set up a company in another EU Member State. This
should make it easier for small and medium sized companies in particular
to do business cross-borders. The Commission proposal is so (...)
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(EPSU/FNV Press
Release, Brussels 06 November 2015) In a joint letter, EPSU, the European
Public Service Union, and its Dutch affiliate, FNV, call upon the Dutch
Prime Minister Mark Rutte to take action against breaches of fundamental
workers’ rights at the European Patent Office based in the (...)
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(Brussels, 3
November 2015) Irish MEP Lynn Boylan spoke today at the Executive
Committee of the European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) in
Brussels. Ms Boylan was the rapporteur for the Report on the follow up of
the European’s Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) Right2Water, a
Europe-wide (...)
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