European Federation of Public Service Unions

Carola Fischbach-Pyttel General Secretary of the European Trade Union Federation for the Public Sector from 1996 to 2014

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 @1@ 2

[1] Page "Affiliated Unions Directory" (accessed March 29, 2018); the page has 272 entries, but also contains the address of the EPSU itself

[2] "About us" page of EPSU , accessed on March 21, 2018.

[3] ver.di-News 6/2019

[4] 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 @1@ 2