Email News Signup Submit Search form Search... Search Search en fr pt es en fr pt es Powered by Translate Take Action Sign the Quality Public Services Charter 15 public sector trade unionists have been arrested in Turkey PSI stands with Detroit and public workers Korean union official on hunger strike needs your support Swaziland - Stop the crackdown on public workers Send your protest against arrests in Turkey No to Austerity Support Algerian hunger strikers A Robin Hood Tax for a sustainable world A gold medal for solidarity Public Services International and the Rio+20 Summit Russia and the World Trade Organization Protest against the dismissals and repression of workers in Paraguay Take action to support arrested Turkish unionists 28 April International Workers' Memorial Day Act now to unban the trade union movement in Swaziland End violence against women now! International Women's Day 8 March 2013 International Workers' Day - 1 May 2013 Letter to Tessaloniki water bidders Mexico: Days of action for trade union rights More arrests of Turkish trade unionists - take action now! PSI continues to support its affiliates in PERU! Russia: A power engineer must not be poor Solidarity with Korean education support workers Support PCS strike at London's National Gallery Week of action for Guatemala Algeria: Reinstate Rachid Malaoui and end trade union rights violations now! Take Action: Please send donations for the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan Support for innovative non-profit partnerships in the water sector in ACP countries Call for a Robin Hood Tax Now Defending trade union rights in South Korea End Violence against women Now! Korea: Support railway workers' right to strike PSI denounces Trade in Services agreement Stick with it! We want a Financial Transaction Tax now! 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Search Search Powered by Translate PSI is a global union federation that represents 20 million working women and men who deliver vital public services in 150 countries Our members work in health care, municipal and community services, central government, and public utilities such as water and electricity PSI champions human rights, advocates for social justice and promotes universal access to quality public services Global Labour Tax Summit PSI is organising a Global Labour Tax Summit in partnership with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), to examine tax issues from a labour perspective. New report: Why Public-Private Partnerships don’t work The report shows that PPPs have failed to live up to their promise. In most cases, they are an expensive and inefficient way of financing infrastructure and services Nepal needs your help PSI is urgently calling on its affiliates to send funds for the immediate relief of PSI members and to assist in rebuilding communities in Nepal. Solidarity, Strength, Service The 12th Regional Conference for Africa and Arab Countries (AFRECON) and related meetings will be taking place from 22nd to 25th September 2015 in Gaborone, Botswana. Highlights News RSS Public services and their trade unions central to fostering inclusive, thriving local economic development On 14 October 2015, PSI General Secretary Rosa Pavanelli joined UCLG, ILO, UNDP, Caritas, Slowfood, and several local government and municipalities representatives in the opening panel of the 3rd Local Development Forum (LED) in Turin (Italy). PSI condemns brutal bomb attacks Public Services International condemns the brutal bomb attacks in Ankara on 10 October, killing 96 people and wounding 250 peaceful demonstrators. PSI affiliates, members of the DISK and KESK confederations, participated in a peace rally calling for an end to the renewed violence between Kurdish rebels and Turkish security forces. PSI Portuguese affiliate wins full decentralized collective bargaining rights for municipal workers On 7 October 2015, the Portuguese Constitutional Court ruled the unconstitutionality of Portugal’s central government interference in the collective bargaining process between local government employers and trade unions and has ordered the public disclosure of the over 600 collective agreements negotiated at a municipal level over many years, which will now be accessible to all local government employees of Portugal. 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