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Collective Bargaining – negotiating the best deal at every level
A core activity of trade unions is negotiating, on behalf of members, with employers. EPSU’s affiliates concentrate on good pay levels for public service workers at the workplace, the sector and national level. Good working conditions are just as important.
In collective bargaining, EPSU has two main tasks; firstly to contribute to the improvement of pay and working conditions for all public service workers in Europe, and secondly to act as a European information point so that EPSU affiliates are aware of trends and developments in public service negotiations.
Public sector workers across Europe fight reductions in services
EPSU affiliates in Germany , Greece , Ireland , the Netherlands and Portugal are, or will be, involved in various forms of industrial action this week and next. In Germany and the Netherlands (...)
Denmark and Sweden defending collective agreements and supplementary pensions before ECJ
The European Court of Justice is organising a hearing in the case of the European Commission versus Germany (C-271-08), 12 January 2010, Luxembourg. The Commission took Germany to the Court as it believes that the practice of local authorities to award contracts for pension services on the basis of the selection as laid down in collective agreements is a violation of the public procurement directives. The German government disagrees with the European (...)
EPSU equal pay network
Conference stresses need to defend jobs and pay and conditions in the public services
The conference heard the experiences of workers from several central and Eastern European countries and in a statement noted that: “Over the past year (...)
Message of support from EPSU to KESK on its day of strike action for trade union rights
Collective Agreements “Your unseen asset” – Swedish TCO campaign shows instant benefits of collective bargaining
Instant calculation of your benefits
The homepage of the campaign allows the members to see the exact amount of Swedish Kroner that they have gained by being part of a collective agreement. The (...)
Dismissed municipal workers continue march from Izmir to Ankara
For the latest on the march: http://www.genel-is.org.tr/diger_incele.php?id=NDYx
(or a google translation)
EPSU letter of support:
PSI letter of (...)
Closing the Gender Pay Gap – EPSU sectors discuss wage disparities
Report EPSU 8th Congress: EPSU Congress resolution on collective bargaining
(9 June 2009, Brussels) For the congress period 2009-2014, in the area of collective bargaining, EPSU have unanimously adopted the following resolution:
The resolution affirms the principles and objectives that EPSU affiliates commit to in the field of collective bargaining, including:
ensuring that social justice, trade union and human rights take preference over competition rules and trade in Europe and elsewhere
that global competition is (...)