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The European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU), organising 8 million public service workers across Europe.

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General Secretary: @jwgoudriaan.bsky.social
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💪🏾From strikes in the UK's NHS to protests in Portugal, Europe’s public service workers are fighting for higher pay and better conditions.

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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

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📸 We met with the Ambassador of Palestine to discuss the urgent situation of workers in Palestine.

👛 Crucial: Israel must release withheld funding designated for the Palestinian Authority, as @consilium.europa.eu has called for. Workers must be paid their wages.
January 28, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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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.
January 27, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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.
🔴 New data from @casecoalition.bsky.social shows abusive lawsuits (SLAPPs) are still silencing environmental defenders, journalists & citizens across Europe, despite the new EU anti-SLAPP law.

⏰ With 99 days left to implement the EU law, governments must act.

🔗 www.the-case.eu/resources/20...
January 28, 2026 at 9:06 AM
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On #HolocaustRemembranceDay we say

Never again fascism
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.
January 27, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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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!"
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...
Public service unions mourn US nurse and union member killed in Minneapolis
EPSU and PSI mourn Alex Pretti and stand with workers and communities pushing back against violence and intimidation.
www.epsu.org
January 27, 2026 at 7:03 PM
▪️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-...
January 27, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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.
January 27, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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...
Public service unions mourn US nurse and union member killed in Minneapolis
EPSU and PSI mourn Alex Pretti and stand with workers and communities pushing back against violence and intimidation.
www.epsu.org
January 27, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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🎤 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
January 27, 2026 at 2:13 PM
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.
January 27, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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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

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January 27, 2026 at 1:13 PM
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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 ⬇️

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@corporateeurope.org
Digital Omnibus Report V2: Analysis of Select GDPR and ePrivacy Proposals by the Commission
Version 2 of our report includes specific recommendations for the EU legislator on each of the most important articles, including on whether to reject or maintain proposed changes
noyb.eu
January 26, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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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.
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...
January 26, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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Belgium 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
26 janvier : action de soutien
La résistance contre le gouvernement antisocial de l’Arizona se poursuit en 2026 ! Premier rendez-vous : une action le lundi 26 janvier, en solidarité avec les travailleurs et travailleuses des chemin...
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January 26, 2026 at 7:57 AM
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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
Statement on ICE’s killing of AFGE member Alex Jeffrey Pretti
Minnesota AFL-CIO President Bernie Burnham made the following statement on ICE’s killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti this morning in Minneapolis:“For the second time in less than three weeks, a Minnesotan ...
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January 25, 2026 at 6:59 AM
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🚨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

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www.businesseurope.eu
January 23, 2026 at 10:36 AM
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🚨 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

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@etuc-ces.bsky.social
FNV zoekt steun van Brussel: Nederland voldoet niet aan eisen minimumloon
‘We laten het kabinet niet zomaar wegkomen met een dikke onvoldoende’, zegt de tijdelijke FNV-voorzitter Dick Koerselman.
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January 22, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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...
January 22, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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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!
January 22, 2026 at 8:25 AM
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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
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January 22, 2026 at 6:49 AM
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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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Reform tried to shut down five care homes in Lancashire. UNISON and the community stood firm and stopped them.

We can defeat Farage and his hateful, anti-worker politics.

Huge well done to UNISON North West & local campaigners, showing the way ✊

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Lancashire care homes will not shut, Reform UK says - BBC News
Protests had been held over the future of the five care homes that were under review in Lancashire.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 22, 2026 at 6:58 AM
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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
Streiks in Ordensspitälern haben begonnen
Die Beschäftigten der oberösterreichischen Ordensspitäler haben am Donnerstag Morgen mit den angekündigten Protestmaßnahmen begonnen. Sie führten in den Spitälern Betriebsversammlungen durch. Viele ge...
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January 22, 2026 at 7:29 AM
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...
January 21, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Following the brutal murder of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agents, US communities gear up their resistance.

EPSU stands together with #Minnesota workers, unions and immigrant communities taking action on 23 January.

#Solidarity has no border!
January 21, 2026 at 8:54 AM
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European Parliament agreed with the trade union proposal for a Just Transition Directive

To ensure workers get a fair deal when our companies restructure

@epsu.bsky.social expects a legislative proposal from the Commission
BREAKING: European Parliament backs a Just Transition Directive ✅

The EU must equip itself with strong tools to anticipate & manage change while building cohesion.

Its for workers like Rainer that the Commission must now move ahead with a Just Transition Directive as part of the Quality Jobs Act.
January 21, 2026 at 6:44 AM