Anders Hammarbäck of SKTF, Sweden, is the President of the EPSU Standing Committee for local and regional government.
Penny Clarke is the EPSU policy officer for the sector.
Local public services are, by definition, at the front line of public services. Users have direct experience of those who provide those services, be they fire-fighters, waste workers, community liaison personnel, or local administrators issuing documents and providing guidance. EPSU is committed to ensuring that quality services are provided to all users. We are committed to high quality and efficient public services based on a well-educated and skilled work force. Working conditions for local and regional government employees is a main plank of this commitment but only a part. EPSU is also pledged to the promotion of open, transparent public procurement that puts the aim of the vital services first. EPSU is convinced that assessing public procurement regimes, means assessing their environmental and social impact, as well as the cost.
(1 March 2010) EPSU’s LRG committee organised a special session on public procurement on 1 March to give impetus to initiatives to promote social procurement. More than half of public procurement is carried out by local and regional authorities but most contracts are awarded on the basis of ‘lowest cost’ rather than taking into account also social and environmental considerations. EPSU argues in favour of strengthening the EU framework for social procurement in order to encourage public (...)
(Preparations Joint NEA/LRG migration workshop, 3-4 November 2009)
We are pleased to send you the joint EPSU questionnaire conducted by the Labour Research Department on trade union action for migrants and issues faced by staff dealing with migrants and/or involved in migration services.
The questionnaire will be available in French, German, Italian, Spanish and Russian.
You can reply in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish or Polish.
The replies to the questionnaire will form the (...)
(24 September 2009, Brussels) At its meeting on 24 September, EPSU’s local and regional government committee unanimously elected Anders Hammarback SKTF, Chair, and Jose Manuel Marques, STAL Portugal and Heather Wakefield, UNISON UK, as vice Chairs.
The Committee also agreed its work programme for the upcoming Congress period 2009-2014.
The meeting had been preceded by the EPSU firefighters network meeting on 23 September.
The main substantive issue on the agenda was the adoption of a ‘ pay (...)
(24 September 2009, Brussels) On 22 October, the European conference “Respect – multi-sectoral initiative on third-party violence at the workplace will be held. This conference is part of the EU funded social dialogue project managed by the European Hospital and Healthcare Employers Association (HOSPEEM) along with project partners: CEMR-EP, CoESS, EuroCommerce, and in cooperation with EPSU and UNI europa.
To prepare for this conference, the partners held a preparatory meeting, with the (...)
(10 June 2009, Brussels) For the congress period 2009 – 2014, the EPSU 8th EPSU Congress overwhelmingly backed the resolution on Local and Regional Government. The resolution was introduced by Anders Hammarbäck (SKTF, Sweden), EPSU Committee Chair for the sector.
He stressed the need for “a positive agenda for public services, based on shared values of solidarity and equality.” This had to be “an agenda in which local democracy and decision-making play a fundamental part.”
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The Local and Regional Government section of our congress will focus on :
Item 14) Resolution R.5: “Local and Regional Government” – introduced by Anders Hammarbäck (pictured), chair of the EPSU committee for local government, calls for EPSU and affiliates to develop a coordinated response to the challenges facing local and regional government, including those stemming from EU policy proposals and case law from the European Court of Justice; for unions to develop partnerships or agreements on (...)
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