European Federation of Public Service Unions
The European Public Service Federation (EPSU), engl. European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) is a European trade union federation based in Brussels . It represents 8 million members in around 270 unions in 49 countries. EPSU is the European regional structure of the International of Public Services (PSI) / Public Services International (PSI) and a member of the European Trade Union Confederation .
Departments
- Health and Social Services
- Local and regional administrations
- Federal / Central Administrations / European Authorities
- Supply and disposal
Committees
- Equal opportunities for women and women
- youth
Working groups on the fire brigade , penitentiary system , social services, but also thematic: international trade agreements
European works councils z. B. Engie, Veolia, Capio, Falck
Functionality and main topics
- Representation before European institutions through discussions, speeches, participation in formal consultations
- Lobbying, e.g. B. Reorganization of public contract award 2014
- Campaigns, e.g. B. Defense of trade union rights in Turkey , tax justice
- European citizens' initiative "Right to Water"
- social inequality in Europe
- Digitization of the world of work and climate change
- Networking to achieve greater enforcement
The EPSU President is Mette Nord and the General Secretary is Jan Willem Goudriaan. Secretariat in Brussels with 19 full-time employees, also regional offices in Moscow , Bucharest , Kiev and Prague .
EPSU Congresses are held every five years, the last being in Dublin from June 4-7, 2019 . Mette Nord from Norway was newly elected EPSU President. The 60-year-old is the president of the Fagforbundet union, which has over 367,000 members. Nord takes over from Isolde Kunkel-Weber .
Member unions in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
Affiliates are
- from Germany: ver.di , Marburger Bund and the Central Association of German Chimney Sweeps ,
- from Austria: the GPA-DJP , GÖD / FSG , VAAÖ , vida and younion .
- from Switzerland: Swiss Association of Public Service Personnel .
literature
- Carola Fischbach-Pyttel: Building the European Federation of Public Service Unions: the history of EPSU (1978-2016) . Brussels 2017, ISBN 978-2-87452-452-3 , online , (English).
- Hans-Wolfgang Platzer, Torsten Müller: The global and European trade union federations: Manual and analyzes of transnational trade union politics . Ed. Sigma, Berlin 2009, half vol. 2, table of contents , there in particular pp. 629–654.
Web links
- EPSU homepage , accessed March 21, 2018
- Articles of Association , accessed on March 29, 2018
Individual evidence
- ^ Page "Affiliated Unions Directory" (accessed March 29, 2018); the page has 272 entries, but also contains the address of the EPSU itself
- ^ "About us" page of EPSU , accessed on March 21, 2018.
- ↑ ver.di-News 6/2019
- ↑ Trade Unions Affiliated to the ETF ( Memento of the original from March 29, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on March 29, 2018