International Public Services

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The International of Public Services (PSI), English Public Services International (PSI) is one of the global union federations with 669 unions of the public sector with around 20 million members in 154 countries . The organization was founded in 1907 at its current headquarters in Ferney-Voltaire , France . The president is Dave Prentis . The general secretary is Rosa Pavanelli . The German member is the United Service Union (ver.di).

The associated European trade union federation is the European trade union federation for the public service .

PSI world congresses

literature

  • Heinz Bendt: Worldwide solidarity. The work of global trade union organizations in the age of globalization. Bonn (FES) 2006, PDF, 135 p. , There in particular p. 84–90.
  • Michele Ford, Michael Gillan: The global union federations in international industrial relations: A critical review. In: Journal of Industrial Relations 57 (3), 2015, pp. 456–475.
  • Torsten Müller, Hans-Wolfgang Platzer, Stefan Rüb: The global trade union associations face the challenges of globalization. In: International Politics and Society. Online: International Politics and Society. - 2010, 3 ( PDF, 17 pp. , Accessed on February 24, 2018).
  • Walter Sauer: International trade union work. Publishing house of the Austrian Trade Union Federation, Vienna 2014, PDF, 60 pp.
  • Wolfgang Schroeder (Ed.): Handbook of trade unions in Germany. Wiesbaden (Springer VS) 2014, 790 p., Table of contents , in particular:
    Werner Reutter / Peter Rütters, “Pragmatic Internationalism”: History, structure and influence of international and European trade union organizations (pp. 581–615).
  • Hans-Wolfgang Platzer, Torsten Müller: The global and European trade union associations. Handbook and analyzes of transnational trade union policy. Ed. Sigma, Berlin 2009, half vol. 1, 403 p. Table of contents , there in particular p. 299–326.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Who we are. In: world-psi.org. Public Services International, accessed on March 23, 2017 (English): "Public Services International brings together more than 20 million workers, represented by 669 unions in 154 countries and territories."
  2. ^ 29th World Congress of Public Services International. In: world.psi.org. Retrieved March 23, 2017 .
  3. ↑ PSI 30th World Congress , accessed on March 27, 2018