@epsu.bsky.social
The European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU), organising 8 million public service workers across Europe. Follow us to stay connected with their fight - and wins! General Secretary: @jwgoudriaan.bsky.social
Text poster to mobilise for action by health workers of all Belgian unions Logos on top. Demands and image of workers pulling a clock
Belgian unions in public, private, non-profit health and care organise joint mobilisation Brussels 3 February
🚨Underlining public health emergency - workers are exhausted
@epsu.bsky.social supports the unions in the joint action. It is a very European struggle
#solidarity
@labourstart.bsky.social
Mental health workers in Prestwich hospital #strike for higher and fair pay with @unison.org.uk
#solidarity
Workers deserve that higher pay and better conditions
A struggle European health workers recognise.
Different countries, the same struggle
@epsu.bsky.social
@andreaegangs.bsky.social
Previous promises UK private water companies were not delivered
Investments remain lacking
Money disappeared in pockets of overpaid CEOs and dividend payouts
Experience publicly owned water companies across Europe and world testify a reliable alternative is available
@epsu.bsky.social
Screenshot of a Euractiv article titled “Europe’s health staff pushed to the brink, says union chief,” summarising retention pressures among Irish health workers and similar trends across the EU.
🤔 Did you know? New research with @forsatradeunion.bsky.social members suggests two-thirds of health staff in Ireland are actively considering leaving.
That’s not an Ireland-only problem. It’s the same pressure many health and care workers face across Europe.
@euractiv.com covered EPSU’s warning:
German union @social.verdi.de in #strike action for higher wages and better conditions in hospitals and clinics.
Actions to demand progress in negotiations with the employers for 7% but at least on increase of 300 Eur.
#solidarity
@epsu.bsky.social
Many European public authorities fund AWS through public contracts
Amazon/AWS avoids paying fair share of taxes
The review of EU's procurement rules and the forthcoming Buy Europe act by @ec.europa.eu an opportunity to address this
See this report of @cictar.bsky.social for @epsu.bsky.social
Joined ETUC to meet Palestine Ambassador
Israel withholding money destinated for Palestine to pay wages of public services workers like in health care. Hospitals West Bank close
@consilium.europa.eu should act, demanding those funds are released
SItuation West Bank big concern
@epsu.bsky.social
Never again is not a slogan. It’s a responsibility.
On this #HolocaustRemembranceDay, we cleaned the #stolpersteine of Sally Frankenthal, hidden in Brussels with her parents, by resistance fighter Nelly Quintart.
We stand against fascism - no matter where they appear.
#NeverAgain is today.
They are rich and shameless.
They violate workers’ rights, steal public funds, shift profits to tax havens, pollute our planet… and then go after those who expose these crimes.
✊🏾 We stand with all those targeted by greedy corporations and complicit politicians.
Governments must act.
On #HolocaustRemembranceDay we say
Never again fascism
Today, the PCS International Committee met to address the ongoing situation in Minneapolis. So we will send formal messages of solidarity to Alex’s Local and the local AFL-CIO. Mother Jones saying is relevant here "Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!"
27.01.2026 19:03 — 👍 2 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1▪️2019. 12 contracts worth €464 million.
▪️2020. 18 contracts worth €402 million.
▪️2021. 32 contracts worth €503 million.
This is what Europe pays to #Amazon, mostly for web services, through public contracts.
Read more: www.epsu.org/article/new-...
Never again is not a slogan. It’s a responsibility.
On this #HolocaustRemembranceDay, we cleaned the #stolpersteine of Sally Frankenthal, hidden in Brussels with her parents, by resistance fighter Nelly Quintart.
We stand against fascism - no matter where they appear.
#NeverAgain is today.
EPSU and @psiglobalunion.bsky.social mourn Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse and AFGE union member killed in Minneapolis.
We stand with unions, workers and communities demanding a full, transparent investigation - and an end to ICE violence.
Read the solidarity letter 👉 www.epsu.org/article/publ...
🎤 Today, we have listened to how de-risking can be a dangerous tool that can raise debt and even deepen inequalities between countries. ⛓️
Why do we channel public money to profit-oriented bodies with almost no criteria? 💸
@epsu.bsky.social @eeb.org @neweconomics.bsky.social
*Derisking: The public investment to attract private companies & investors by reducing risks or increasing returns for projects that are deemed strategic.
Alongside the deregulation wave, it's another point in Commission’s competitiveness agenda.
Gambling with public money.
EU budget is not tight when it comes to corporate adventures.
➡️ EU takes the risk - gives the money.
⬅️ Corporates enjoy, almost with no conditionalities.
We're listening @angelawigger.bsky.social at the Derisking* event by @eeb.org , @neweconomics.bsky.social, @counter-balance.bsky.social & EPSU.
Joining meeting with @angelawigger.bsky.social on derisking and EU finance like InvestEU
Pointing out risks for EU budget
And no policy direction, no guarantees that the corporations and private equity funds deliver on the objectives
@eeb.org
@neweconomics.bsky.social
@epsu.bsky.social
European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) likely come out against @ec.europa.eu omnibus on digitalisation - @politico.eu reports. Omnibus is not about simplification
Confirming detailed analysis @noyb.eu ⬇️
@epsu.bsky.social
@corporateeurope.org
For British trade union activists in particular, EPSU’s collective bargaining newsletter is invaluable for keeping up to date with trade union struggles across the EU and wider Europe. If you can, it’s well worth following.
26.01.2026 17:49 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Belgium enters another week of railway #strike against proposals to attack workers' pensions and to weaken agreements that protect railway workers
#Solidarity action @fgtb-abvv-bxl.bsky.social @fgtb.bsky.social
12 March All-union National manifestation
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@etf-europe.bsky.social
US labour movement in Minnesota stands in #solidarity with trade unionist Alex Pretti [AFGE] killed by ICE for protesting
@epsu.bsky.social stands with you
🚨Europe's corporate lobby has published its deregulation wish list to the European Commission. The lobby group attacks rules on taxation and transparency, on whistle-blower protection, Transparent and Predictable working conditions, on European Works Councils and so much more
@epsu.bsky.social
🚨 Breaking: Netherlands to transpose EU minimum wage directive. It violates key points on youth minimum wages and on protections for migrant workers
Dutch union @fnv.bsky.social will raise it with @ec.europa.eu Ensuring all benefit from decent minimum wages
@epsu.bsky.social
@etuc-ces.bsky.social
Red cover of the “EPSU Collective Bargaining Newsletter” (January 2026, No 1) with the tagline “The voice of 8 million European public services workers” and the EPSU logo at the bottom.
New year, same fight for fair pay and safe staffing!
🔥 Brussels firefighters strike over understaffing
💶 Moldova unions push for an EU-aligned minimum wage
✊ UK unions win stronger rights while disputes continue
Read more in EPSU’s Collective Bargaining newsletter 👉 www.epsu.org/epsucob/janu...
Political cartoon showing a chainsaw labeled ‘Simplifier’ cutting through a stack of papers labeled ‘Vital social and environmental protections.’ The chainsaw bears EU symbols and is powered by a red fuel can labeled ‘Corporate lobbying.’ Above, text reads: ‘Commission unveils new tools in so-called “simplification” plans.’ Cartoon by @cartoonRalph
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The 🇪🇺 Commission is taking a political chainsaw to hard won social, environmental, and digital protections.
We need #RulestoProtect not #Deregulation.
Check out our new cartoons below by @cartoonralph.bsky.social and spread the word!
German union @social.verdi.de steps up #strike action after employers of the 2.2 million workers in the Länder refuse to table decent pay rise
Workers and the union asks 7% increase or at least 300 Euros
Success
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@andreaegangs.bsky.social
@strikemap.org
@unionnews.bsky.social
Trade union @unison.org.uk and community action prevented the farright Reform party from closing down/privatising care homes in Lancashire
Farright is never for working people
We can defeat them
Great news and fantastic example what struggle can achieve
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@teajarc.bsky.social
Success to Austrian trade union Vida @oegb.bsky.social
#strike in Ordens Hospitals have started, emergency services are guaranteed
Workers demand a decent pay increase and measures to improve working conditions
Success
#solidarity @epsu.bsky.social
@social.verdi.de
@vpodschweiz.bsky.social
L’énergie est un bien essentiel, pas une marchandise !
À l’occasion des 80 ans des nationalisations, FNME-CGT appelle à une maîtrise publique de l’énergie, à des factures plus justes et à un accès garanti pour toutes et tous.
En savoir plus et soutenir la pétition ➡️ www.humanite.fr/en-debat/dro...
