The voice of 8 million public service workers across Europe. 🦋 epsu.bsky.social General Secretary: @JW_Goudriaan
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Long waiting times. Staff shortages. Closed services. Burnout. Low pay.
This is not normal.
On 23 June, Public Service Day, workers across Europe are standing up against the #PublicServicesEmergency.
We need public investment, more staff and higher wages.
Join the fight!
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⏰ 10 days to #ManiFiesta!
Public services are being cut. Workers are fighting back.
Join us in Oostende to talk about how unions can beat austerity and defend strong public services. ✊
📅 12 Sept, 13:00
📍 Union Village
🔗 manifiesta.be/fr/line-up/urg…
ALT Colourful ManiFiesta 2026 event graphic for “Public Services in Crisis: fighting together against austerity”, featuring speakers Arzu Çerkezoğlu, Laurent Pirnay, Andrea Egan, Ilse Heylen and Jan Willem Goudriaan. The event takes place in the Union Village on 12 September, 13:00–14:00.
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EPSU retweeted
Solidarity with Ver.di and workers across Germany!
We support your struggle for the healthcare system against cuts to social protection
@dgb_news
@EPSUnions
#publicservices
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Public service unions put Palantir's accounts on the front pages.
Now PSI, @CICTAR_Tax, @EPSUnions and @unisontheunion want governments to review the contracts already signed, and stop handing public money to firms that dodge their share.
🇬🇧 🇳🇱 ✊ publicservices.international…
ALT PSI graphic headed EXPOSED: Palantir's tiny tax rate is making global headlines, showing torn press clippings from Politico, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Follow the Money, euobserver and Breakthrough News.
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💜 Public service workers show up for us every day. Now we need the government to show up for them.
Hear from Micaela Tracey-Ramos on why ministers must recognise and support the people who keep our public services running.
#WeShowUp unison.org.uk/we-show-up
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Public services are under attack. Workers are fighting back. ✊
Join us at #ManiFiesta to talk about how we beat austerity and win the fight for strong public services.
📅 12 Sept, 13:00
📍 Union Village, Oostende
@unisontheunion @diskinsesi
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Palantir pays an effective global tax rate of just 1.4%.
Nurses, firefighters and care workers pay their taxes. Governments must stop rewarding tax avoidance with public money.
New investigation by PSI, @EPSUnions and @CICTAR_Tax: publicservices.international… ✊
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Public money should fund public services—not reward aggressive tax avoidance.
A new report reveals how Palantir benefits from public contracts across Europe while paying almost no corporate tax through complex corporate structures. Meanwhile, workers and citizens are left to shoulder the cost.
📖 Read the full report 👇👇
#FightForDemocracy @EPSUnions
🤑 We pay. You pay. Palantir doesn’t.
A new report finds #Palantir pays little to no corporate tax in Europe while expanding across public services, policing, defence and national security.
Public money in. Almost no tax out.
Read: bit.ly/4w4B8cj
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.@AndreaEganGS: "Tech giants raking off billions in profit can't be free to pay what they please. Ministers shouldn't award contracts to run public services to firms that are starving them of cash."
Read our response ⬇️
unison.org.uk/press/2026/08/…
🤑 We pay. You pay. Palantir doesn’t.
A new report finds #Palantir pays little to no corporate tax in Europe while expanding across public services, policing, defence and national security.
Public money in. Almost no tax out.
Read: bit.ly/4w4B8cj
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🤑 We pay. You pay. Palantir doesn’t.
A new report finds #Palantir pays little to no corporate tax in Europe while expanding across public services, policing, defence and national security.
Public money in. Almost no tax out.
Read: bit.ly/4w4B8cj
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EPSU retweeted
#KESK demands 35% additional increase in public employees' wages.
While we work we suffer from poverty.
When we get retired, it gets worse.
@ituc @etuc_ces @EPSUnions @KESK1995
%35 #EkZam İSTİYORUZ!👇
✔Hepimize çalışırken yoksulluk, emeklilikte sefalet dayatılıyor! Emekli aylıklarımız gittikçe düşüyor.
✔Toplu sözleşme kadük (geçersiz) hale geldi!
✔İlave seyyanen ödenek başta olmak üzere mevcut tüm ek ödemelerin taban aylığımıza yansıtılmasını İSTİYORUZ!
✔En yüksek enflasyon sıralamasında dünya beşincisi, gıdadan kiraya enflasyonun her türünde AB ve OECD ülkeleri içinde açık ara birinci sırada olan bir ülkede yaşıyoruz.
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EPSU retweeted
The firefighters' health concordat will ensure
🔥 Health monitoring for serving and retired firefighters
🔥 Better NHS data on firefighter health
🔥 Research into job-caused diseases
This week, FBU officials met with occupational health experts and government officials for the first firefighter health and wellbeing working group meeting.
The FBU will continue to put the health and wellbeing of our members as our number one priority.
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🎉 Happy 30th anniversary to @sesgenelmerkezi!
For 3⃣ decades, SES has been at the forefront of the struggle for better conditions for health and social service workers and quality public services for all in Türkiye.
📸 04.06.2022, court hearing of arrested SES leaders, Ankara
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30 long years in the fight! SES members and leaders have faced intimidation, persecution and even imprisonment, simply for their trade union activities.
Yet, they have never given up.
We stood together with them in every court case.
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EPSU is proud to stand in #solidarity with SES throughout these years.
Together, we will continue defending workers' rights, public services, trade union rights and democracy.
Congratulations on 30 years of courage.
✊🏾 In solidarity. Always.
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A decade of Tory austerity axed 12,000 frontline firefighters. Now wildfires are surging, and we don't have the crews to fight them safely.
We need 5,000 more firefighters now.
The FBU is urging government to convene a National Wildfire Summit to build national resilience.
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🎉Tebrikler, Devrimci Sağlık-İş!
Our affiliate has exceeded the national threshold and is now authorised to enter collective bargaining.
A major victory for health and social service workers in Türkiye!
💪🏾Stronger unions mean a stronger EPSU!
İki yıl önce yapılan müdahaleyle baraj altında bırakıldıktan sonra inatla, inanmışlıkla, örgütlü gücümüz ve mücadelemizle, dayanışmayla hakkımız olanı geri aldık!
Konfederasyonumuz DİSK'in, DİSK'e bağlı kardeş sendikalarımızın, sağlık emek ve meslek örgütlerinin, üyesi olduğumuz uluslararası örgütler EPSU ve PSI desteği ile her türlü zorluğa karşı barajları aştık.
İstatistiklerin açıklanmasından 24 saat geçmeden sendikamıza büyük bir umut ve kararlılıkla üye olan yüzlerce yeni üyemize, evine geri dönen eski üyelerimize teşekkür ediyoruz!
Bu daha başlangıç mücadeleye devam!
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🫂 EPSU, de cuyo grupo
LGTBIQA+ forma parte la FSS-CCOO, expresa su solidaridad tras el ataque en el Orgullo de Berlín
sanidad.ccoo.es/noticia:7653…
🏳️🌈 También lo hacemos desde Zuecos para la diversidad mostrando solidaridad y agradecimiento al personal de urgencias y emergencias
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📍Türkiye
We are closely following the publication of trade union membership statistics today.
We expect the @csgbakanligi to ensure that the figures are accurate, transparent and in line with the legal framework & court decisions.
✊🏾#Solidarity
Sağlık ve Sosyal Hizmet İşçileri Hakkını Alacak!
Sendikaların üye sayılarına ilişkin istatistiklerinin açıklanacağı gün Çalışma ve Sosyal Güvenlik Bakanlığı önünde bir araya geldik.
Bakanlık önünde yaptığımız basın açıklamasının ardından istatistiklerin açıklanmasını bekliyoruz.
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