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#NoContractNoCoffee

📣 EPSU & @effat.org take action to support #Starbucks workers on strike in the US!

✊🏾 We join @sbworkersunited.org & @seiu.org’s global action call - #solidarity with Starbucks workers.

A recent report reveals major tax avoidance of Starbucks - pay your taxes, pay fair wages!

The year ends - struggle continues!

Here's what Europe's public service unions have been up to👇🏾

◾ Italian unions mobilise against gov't budget
◾ Healthcare workers rally over working conditions in #Switzerland
◾ Warning strikes in social services and health in #Austria

Read more👇🏾
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📣 RESTRUCTURING IN NGOs

Many NGOs are facing funding cuts and restructuring processes - we're coming together to learn about our rights and union support.

Join the Fair-CSOs info session:
📅 16 December, Tuesday - 18.00
📍 Hybrid (EPSU + online)

Register here:
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Workers at Buca Municipality have gone on strike again, and garbage has started to accumulate. Approximately 2,000 workers employed by the Buca Municipality in İzmir have initiated a strike due to unpaid wages and discrepancies in the collective labor agreement. Değer Yıldız, the President of D...

Workers Turkish municipality Buca go on #strike with @genelis.bsky.social as wage agreement not honoured

Cleaners, waste workers, childcare

Garbage piles up as mayor stalls paying decent wages

Our #solidarity
Workers deserve that decent pay rise

@epsu.bsky.social
@diskinsesi.bsky.social

Council 'hires new bin workers' amid strike The union representing striking workers claims the council is recruiting new staff 'to replace striking agency workers'

Birmingham binmen are still on #strike with @unitetheunion.bsky.social

Now Agency workers hired to collect garbage have joined the strike

Such a blatant failure of the city council to solve the conflict

#solidarity to the binmen and agency workers

@epsu.bsky.social
@psiglobalunion.bsky.social

Novartis executive urges von der Leyen to ‘walk the talk’ | Euractiv Novartis executive says Europe needs faster approvals, stronger incentives, and firmer IP rules to keep cutting-edge pharma investment in the EU

Novartis CEO tells @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu how Big Pharma should be allowed to make more profits which will make him and select few, richer

The failure of the Commission is the ideological blindness to EU public interprise to address Europe's industrial challenges

@epsu.bsky.social

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Amazon's determination to keep unions out

Public authorities in EU and elsewhere keep on spending tax payers money to enslave themselves to web and cloudservices of AWS

Amazon is a company that has track record of not paying its fair share of taxes

EU procurement rules...

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A little promotion here of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism

One area of investigation is on the neo-nazis and connections globally

Another on Trump and Project 25

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@etui.bsky.social

Council and Parliament strike a deal to simplify sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements and boost EU competitiveness Simplification: Council and Parliament reach a provisional agreement on sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements.

Following rightwing and extreme right joint position on weakening corporate accountability in European Parliament, Member States and EP have now agreed final text to allow corporations more space for abuse and violations

A bloody shame @eppgroup.bsky.social

@epsu.bsky.social
@corporateeurope.org

The Digital Omnibus: Deregulation Dressed as Innovation The EU's sweeping data and AI package loosens safeguards for workers while promising competitiveness gains that will flow mainly to US tech giants.

ICYMI
The EU's digital omnibus is deregulation dressed up as innovation and weakens also rights and protections of workers

by Aida Ponce @etui.bsky.social

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On deregulation see @corporateeurope.org
On how the omnibus attacks GDPR rules see @noyb.eu
On big tech @parismarx.com

Welcome news Commission focuses on quality jobs

It is wrong though to argue that employers disagree with right to disconnect

They did not in central government administration

@ec.europa.eu has to implement that agreement now it does not do legislation covering all workers

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@epsu.bsky.social together with the European hospital employers @hospeem.bsky.social is in the Netherlands (Hilversum) to discuss how to tackle labour shortages and develop future proving skills for the health care sector (UE project). Our debates focus on the role of temporary agencies.

‼️Global Labour Institute seminar on authoritarian nationalism OTD, also with colleagues from @hetacv.bsky.social @lacsc.bsky.social‼️
#NoToFascism #NeverAgainIsNow
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+100 trade unionists, from all over the world, one message: No to #fascism!

We're at the Global Labour Institute seminar on authoritarian nationalism.

Public services are the greatest equalisers of the society - and they are the best antidote to far-right.

Quality public services - for all!

Counterinsurgency: How Europe’s business lobby retook the Berlaymont | Euractiv The EU’s 'simplification' drive is turning into a bonanza for corporate lobbyists

Good work @euractiv.com on how the corporate lobby captured the European Commission and @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu

And that what she calls simplification, is a deregulatory agenda to benefit corporations - Not workers, not the environment, not our communities

@epsu.bsky.social
@corporateeurope.org

« Nous voulons un budget qui répond aux urgences sociales » : la CGT, Solidaires et la FSU se mobilisent contre l’austérité et les coupes budgétaires - L'Humanité Ce 2 décembre, la CGT, Solidaires et FSU appellent à battre le pavé, alors que les discussions autour des lois de finances s’enlisent. Les perspectives austéritaires inquiètent ...

French unions @cgt.fr @fsu-nationale.bsky.social and @solidaires.org in #strike and on the streets against austerity and for higher wages and for social justice

#solidarity and success

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@strikemap.org
@labourstart.bsky.social
@labournetgermany.bsky.social

Statement — Together Alliance Together is an alliance of over 50 civil society organisations united against the far right.

UK unions in @epsu.bsky.social and @tuc.org.uk and many others joining to fight the farright

Together for Love, Hope, Unity

Major national demonstration 28th March 2026 London

Unions across Europe standing up for workers and people, and standing up against nationalism racism and fascism

Achieving equality requires effort, money and political will.

Europe is progressing but at this pace we will need more than 50 years to achieve equality.

#EIGEindex2025

Day II at the GLI seminar - we started the day with a salute to Starbucks workers on strike in the US.

Today we discuss international #solidarity in the face of war - in Palestine, Ukraine and the DRC.

EPSU’s Artem Tidva reminded us that global support is a life-saver for Ukrainian workers.

As austerity and underfunding impact the European civil service, leading to increased stress and burnouts, @etuc-ces.bsky.social and @epsu.bsky.social demand a European directive on workplace stress. It is overdue

@roxanaminzatu.bsky.social
@labourstart.bsky.social
@jacobinmagazin.bsky.social

Dutzende Verletzte bei Protesten in Gießen Die Großdemonstration rund um die AfD-Veranstaltung in Gießen verlief überwiegend friedlich. Am Rande kam es jedoch zu Auseinandersetzungen. Polizei und Aktivisten werfen sich gegenseitig Gewalt vor.

ICYMI
German union confederation @dgbbbr.bsky.social organised a demo and blockades to draw attention to and try to stop the extreme rightwing youth branch of AfD to set itself up again

Massive police violence erupted

Never again fascism

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@psiglobalunion.bsky.social

Finland prickas för arbetslöshet och utsatta unga – Andersson: ”Vi måste tala om mer än bara skuldsättning” En färsk EU-rapport visar att Finland halkat under genomsnittet i arbetslöshet, ungdomsutbildning och andra sociala indikatorer.

The chairwoman of the EP social policy committtee @liandersson.bsky.social on the need to change course in Filand and other countries
➡️ away from austerity and on to welfare, well being innovation and investment

Strengthening public services key

@epsu.bsky.social

Care workers bring their demands to the European Parliament: “No workers, no care” Workers shared their frontline experiences and adopted a resolution calling for safe staffing, fair pay, stronger protections and guaranteed public investment in care.

that this leads to burned out health and care staff, workers leaving the sector and people, patients, the elderly not taken care off

Europe's care workers came to the European Parliament to give a message to MEPs:

🚨No Workers ➡️🚨No Care

@politico.eu
@epsu.bsky.social

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Parliament’s health workforce report must listen to those who deliver care EPSU has the following recommendation for the European Parliament’s Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and the Committee on Public Health as they prepare their report on health workforce.

have a plan how this can be addressed.
EP report on health workforce will parts up

And for more staffing, and better pay and conditions, we need an end to #austerity

Latvia shows why: Commission recommends funding to ensure assess to health, and demands austerity leading to cuts
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En ce moment, formation du Global Labour Institute. Le syndicalisme doit agir contre l’extrême droite et le nationalisme autoritaire.

Global Labour Institute 2025

We're at the Global Labour Institute's Trade Union School to discuss how international labour movement can tackle authoritarian nationalism.

Public services are the strongest antidotes to #farright; they are the greatest equalisers of societies - and this is why they are essential for democracy.

📣 Public service workers are standing in the way of corporate capture, authoritarianism, and the far right.

We’re fighting for quality public services for everyone.

Read the latest edition of EPSU's newsletter:
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Quality Job Roadmap @ec.europa.eu @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @roxanaminzatu.bsky.social next week

Europe's workers and @epsu.bsky.social expect proposals to improve workers' rights

Not acceptable is undermining those rights through 28th regime or another bullshit employers' agenda

@politico.eu
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La Federation CGT des Services publics, avec @epsu.bsky.social , apporte tout son soutien à la CGSP pour la grève de ce mardi 25 novembre en Belgique. Solidarité et détermination : on ne lâche rien !

This is a good resource provided by EPSU. We are not alone.