#StayhomeSaveLives #SafeWorkersSaveLivesCoronavirus / COVID-19 outbreakCovid-19 EN RU Building our unions Recruitment organising Digitalisation negotiations, EPSU Vs EC ruling, global corporate tax deal on NEA’s agenda

At the 14 October NEA committee meeting, about 35 delegates representing central governments in 20 countries reviewed the state of play with the EC-backed negotiations of an EU social partner agreement on digitalisation. Digitalisation Social Dialogue Tax justice ITUC Climate Strategy Day in Glasgow

On 7 November, the ITUC hosted a Trade Union Climate Strategy Day at the Strathclyde University in Glasgow, in the context of the COP 26. Environment/Climate Change Has the EU forgotten about firefighters and emergency services?

As part of the European Green Deal, the European Commission launched in February 2021 a new strategy on adaptation to climate change. The objective is to make the European Union a climate-resilient society, fully adapted to climate change by 2050. Environment/Climate Change Local government EPSU youth attend ETUC youth event in Lisbon

This week, members of the EPSU youth network took part in an ETUC youth event in Lisbon. The event, organised in cooperation with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, focused on youth as the future of the trade union movement. No to austerity and mobilising for alternatives argues EPSU at ETUC MidTerm Conference

As recovery from the pandemic is taking place several finance ministers have started to argue we have to go back to balanced budgets and reduce state debts. EPSU and many other unions argued at the ETUC mid term conference that we can not go back to austerity. Collective Bargaining Economic Policy Leaked documents show UK government supports anti-union labour reform Ukraine - undermining European Union policy

These leaked documents show that the UK government via its development aid arm (UK Aid) and the UK embassy in Kiev is funding consultants to assist the Ukrainian Ministry of Economy in selling its neo-liberal market reforms to the Ukrainian people. Union Rights EPSU endorses the Trade Union Program for a Public, Low-Carbon, Energy Future

On 4 November, colleagues and comrades from across the world got together in Glasgow to discuss the work of TUED. TUED stands for Trade Unions for Energy Democracy. Energy Environment/Climate Change Public services, climate action and how austerity will kill our planet

For countries to become zero Co2 emitters they have to address the emissions from the public services. Unison, one of the UK public service unions, researched what this would mean for the UK. A new report published on the occasion of COP26 in Glasgow. Economic Policy Environment/Climate Change EPSU expresses its solidarity with the Italian waste workers on strike

The Italian waste workers will strike against proposals of the employers to force more flexibility and precarious conditions on them on 8 November. Collective Bargaining Solidarity Waste All news