Greece : Strike on Thursday 24 November against more flexibility and flexible contracts on civil servants

Dear Colleagues, Dear Friends, Our Greek colleagues of Adedy will be on a 24h strike on Thursday 24 November. They are protesting the new measures to impose more flexibility and flexible contracts on civil servants.   For more information please:www.epsu.org/article/solidarity-greek-civil-servants-general-strike-24-november Our colleagues appreciate your message of support in English or your language: Adedy  adedyed@adedy.gr Thanks for…

Petition calling for public country-by-country tax reporting by multinationals (Public CBCR)

European Federation of Public Service Unions Dear Colleagues, We are getting in touch about our petition calling for public country-by-country tax reporting by multinationals (Public CBCR) http://www.epsu.org/a/11918, an essential tool to fight corporate tax avoidance that costs billions of Euros every year. The petition calls for EU legislation to force multinationals to publish information on each…

Celebrate Public Services Day! Do not trade them away !

European Federation of Public Service Unions EPSU-ETUCE Press release – Brussels, 23 June 2015   Embargoed until 23rd June 10am On 23 June the significant value and virtues of public services are celebrated around the world.  In the context reaching agreement on the Post-2015 Development Agenda including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – the successor…

Sustainable jobs and Reducing Inequality : ROSA PAVANELLI, PSI General Secretary

« PSI General Secretary Rosa Pavanelli congratulates EPSU Congress on its strong messages to European institutions calling for an end to austerity measures and in looking for alternatives which will reduce inequality and create new jobs. » Rosa reminds us that quality public services are essential to re-distributing wealth and reducing the suffering of millions of people. Free trade…

Turquie : Pétition : Pour le droit de célébrer le 1er Mai à la Place Taksim…

La FSESP/EPSU invite tous les syndicalistes et citoyens européens à protester auprès des autorités turques dont le 1er ministre Erdogan vient de refuser aux organisations syndicales l’accès à la Place Taksim à Istambul à l’occasion du 1er mai.La Turquie fait l’objet d’une attention particulière du syndicalisme international en raison des nombreuses violations des droits syndicaux…

Right2Water : Award of the Best Campaign !

The European Democratic Citizenship Awards will celebrate civic engagement and reward every year civil society initiatives and actors which give real substance to democratic citizenship, bring about social innovation and positive change in the life of the local, regional, national or European communities. Form today till 25 April you can vote here: http://www.civic-forum.fr/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=294:campagne-de lannee&catid=1:presentation&lang=fr&Itemid= We hope you…

ECI Right2Water

(Press release 19 March 2014) The European Commission (EC) published a Communication today that gives its official response to the first successful European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) which called on the EC “to implement the human right to water and sanitation in European law.” In the Communication, the European Commission does recall the importance of the…