We joined @etuc-ces.bsky.social @gerrymccormack.bsky.social @forsatradeunion.bsky.social @siptu.bsky.social @inmoirl.bsky.social protest in Irish Cork
Making clear we do not support the 28th regime the @ec.europa.eu wants to propose
This is a corporate initiative. Not of workers
@epsu.bsky.social
EPSU’s Social Services Working Group met in Brussels to evaluate the Care Workers’ Parliament and to prepare the next sectoral social dialogue meeting.
Read here👇🏾
www.epsu.org/article/soci...
📍Cork
EPSU is here with our Irish affiliates and @etuc-ces.bsky.social to oppose the proposed 28th company regime.
Workers’ rights, collective bargaining and national labour laws must not be weakened in the name of “simplification”. Europe’s competitiveness cannot come at the expense of workers.
The @who.int is investigating killing of medical staff and damage to hospitals due to Israeli and US bombing
Global labour movement @psiglobalunion.bsky.social @ituc.bsky.social have called for immediate end to bombing publicservices.international/resources/ne...
@epsu.bsky.social supports this
Collective bargaining news from Europe's public service unions
On #strikes, agreements, research
This issue - Danish public sector agreements, actions and strikes in Belgium, France, pensions and working time in Slovenia, procurement and collective agreements Germany...
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Same sh*t, different century: Equality is under attack from big business.
BusinessEurope calls Pay Transparency Directive a burden. We call it #equality.
On #IWD2026 we call on the @ec.europa.eu to be on the right side of history: Defend the Pay Transparency Directive!
Dutch @fnv.bsky.social organised national action against wage freeze for civil servants
Without decently paid workers no quality administration and no functioning government services
@jacqievanstigt.bsky.social
Very European struggle
#solidarity @epsu.bsky.social
Success with #strike 14 April
Dutch unions @fnv.bsky.social CNV MHP walk away from discussion with government
It violates agreement over pensions worsening situation
Extreme right wing and @reneweurope.bsky.social @eppgroup.bsky.social parties support this and abandon workers
#Strikes being prepared
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Austrian union Vida @oegb.bsky.social organised second #strike action in Ordens hospitals
Workers want a decent pay rise and measures to deal with stress and staffing shortages
Success and #solidarity
You deserve that higher pay and those better conditions
@epsu.bsky.social
🕒Working time reduction is not guaranteed.
Our latest case study looks at Germany and Greece – where governments are moving towards 13-hour days and longer working weeks.
But unions are fighting back.
Find out more in the latest in our working time reduction series 👇 www.epsu.org/article/redu...
Belgian unions in EMEIS have given #strike notice after management walks away from an agreement to guarantee employment following closure of a home for the elderly
Date not set.Unions leave door open for negotiations
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The @ec.europa.eu keeps promoting Business interests
With the omnibus laws it seeks to deregulate and roll back protections of workers, environment, health
And its 28th regime is nothing else as an attempt to undermine social rights and lower taxation for corporations
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More than 192,000 signatures. A general strike. And tomorrow, national demonstrations.
EPSU stands in #Solidarity with CGTP-IN as Portuguese workers mobilise to defend labour rights, collective bargaining and public services.
#Solidariedade! ✊
1.2 million people used their voice - and the Commission listened!
@myvoicemychoice.bsky.social helped secure clear recognition that EU funds can support access to safe abortion care.
A step forward for public health, women’s rights and democracy in action. ✊
www.epsu.org/article/12-m...
EPSU affiliates in health and social services come together - burning issues on the agenda:
◾️Staff shortages and occupational risks
◾️7 April World Health Day
◾️23 June Public Service Day
We'll keep fighting for better conditions for health and care workers - together! 💪🏾
85 years ago Dutch workers walked out to protest the razzia's, arrests and deportation of Jewish people under the Nazi occupation. #strike which was brutally repressed
The stories of resistance still resonate today as workers continue to show their courage against repression
EPSU members in social services met in Brussels.
From the sectoral social dialogue preps to Quality Jobs Roadmap & Act; childcare to long-term care; and to the 23 June Public Service Day plans - all on the agenda.
We're proud of bringing the voice of care workers together across Europe!
A response from CEO's @pascoesabido.bsky.social on the new findings on lobby meetings held on the Clean Industrial Deal and its related files in the year since it was announced.
"Trade unions and NGOs have been sidelined"
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Red-and-black halftone image of a crowd with raised hands, overlaid with the word “Solidarity” in multiple languages, and the EPSU logo at the bottom.
Today, we remember the courage of those workers.
We honour the role of workers in resisting oppression.
And we reaffirm a simple commitment:
Never again fascism.
Never again persecution.
Always #solidarity.
✊🏽 @fnv.bsky.social
Black-and-white photo of a large crowd gathered around Amsterdam’s Dockworker statue during a commemorative ceremony, with wreaths at the base and a flag raised beside the monument.
The strike lasted only two days. The reprisals were brutal and deadly.
But its message travelled far beyond 1941:
#Solidarity is stronger than hatred.
Collective action can confront injustice.
That lesson still matters - perhaps now more than ever.
Alt text: Black-and-white Dutch resistance leaflet from 1941, densely typed, urging a protest strike against Nazi terror and persecution of Jews, with “STAAKT!!!” (“STRIKE!!!”) in large bold letters across the middle.
Tram drivers. Municipal workers. Civil servants. Dockers. Shopkeepers. Students.
Public service workers helped bring Amsterdam to a standstill - and the strike spread beyond the city.
At a time of fear and repression, they chose collective action.
Red-tinted graphic of a crowd and the Dockworker statue with text: “First major strike against Nazi occupation”, “#Februaristaking”, and “25–27 February 1941 – The Netherlands”, plus the EPSU logo.
Today we commemorate the #Februaristaking of 1941.
85 years ago, 300,000 workers in the Netherlands stopped work to protest the persecution of Jewish people under Nazi occupation.
A collective act of courage. A stand for humanity. 🧵👇
EPSU Local & Regional Government Standing Committee meet in Brussels!
On our agenda:
▪️Public Procurement
▪️Housings
▪️Digitalisation of municipal services
▪️23 June Public Service Day
And so on!
We're discussing our collective strategy - because together, we're stronger 💪🏾
Blue EPSU graphic with EPSU logo and large peace symbol. Text reads “Solidarity with Ukrainian workers” and “Workers say NO TO WAR.”
Four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion, our solidarity with Ukraine is unwavering.
We stand with Ukrainian public service workers and unions keeping hospitals, energy, care and communities going under attack.
Peace must be just - and shaped with Ukraine, never over Ukraine.
President @ecb.europa.eu ms. Lagarde gets additional 140.000 Euro for sitting in BIS
Those in powerful positions think they are entitled and can circumvent the rules
Important she pays back and goes
Bank has a credibility issue
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@politico.eu
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24 Feb 2022 Russia invaded Ukraine. I recall our concerns about friends and comrades
All now have lost ones to mourn
The #solidarity of the trade unions including in @epsu.bsky.social @psiglobalunion.bsky.social family was enormous and many organised donations. convoys and assistance to refugees
European cosmetics, pharma lobby keeps pushing against Urban Waste Water Directive
The lobbies favour polluting our waters, pushing costs to workers, our families, communities and environment/future generations
Water providers call out the nonsense
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@eeb.org
@foeeurope.bsky.social
The @ec.europa.eu has postponed Industrial Accelerator Act
@steph-sejourne.bsky.social is pondering which sectors deserve public funding for decarbonisation, and at what conditions
@epsu.bsky.social asked him to integrate social, environmental, tax conditionalities
Do Not throw tax money...
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#SocialJustice means rights and dignity for everyone - including people seeking safety.
New EU migration plans focus on faster returns and “safe country” lists. That risks undermining the right to asylum and piling even more pressure on frontline public workers.
More 👉 www.epsu.org/article/comm...
⚖️ Did you know that a landmark climate trial against TotalEnergies has just started?
A coalition of French cities and NGOs are asking judges to compel the multinational to reduce its fossil fuel production.
Follow along 👇
