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Photos: ILO and WHO
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Public Services International seeks to engage public sector unions in joint actions to:
- Promote the rights of all health workers, particularly women health workers;
- Organize women migrant health workers into unions to better promote and protect their rights and to strengthen the capacity of unions to meet their needs;
- Eliminate exploitative and discriminatory recruitment and employment practices in the health care sector;
- Strengthen bilateral cooperation between unions in sending and receiving countries;
- Campaign for the application of Ethical Guidelines in the international recruitment of health care workers;
- Advocate for increased spending for quality health services and human resources for health; and
- Establish measures to compensate sending countries for the investment made in training and educating health workers
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With the generous contributions of IMPACT (Ireland) - ILO and FNV MONDIAAL (Netherlands) as well past contributions from ABVAKO (Netherlands) and UNISON (UK).
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PSI welcomes new global code for ethical recruitment of migrant health workers
07 June 2010
welcomes the World Health Organization’s adoption of a code of practice for the international recruitment of health care workers, following more than six years of concerted lobbying and direct input by PSI and its affiliate unions.
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Report on the Euro-Mediterranean Conference on Migration held 16 March in Italy
19 March 2010
Around 150 participants representing public sector unions in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Malta, Tunisia and Algeria, non-governmental organizations, migrant groups, local government officials and media representatives from the Puglia region (Italy) joined the first Public Services International Euro-Mediterranean Conference on Migration on 16 March in Bari, Italy. Click here to read the PSI report.
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Euromediterranean Conference on migration
10 March 2010
PSI general secretary Peter Waldorff was a keynote speaker at the Euromediterranean Conference, 16 March, in Bari, Italy. PSI affiliate members participated in this important conference.
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Immigration Reform Would Boost US Economy
14 January 2010
A new report shows that comprehensive immigration reform would help American workers and the U.S. economy. Reform that offers a path to citizenship for currently unauthorized workers and enforces workers’ rights would raise the “wage floor” for the entire U.S. economy and increase the total gross domestic product (GDP) by at least $1.5 trillion over the next decade, the report says.
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The need for accurate and adequate information regarding migration
14 January 2010
Migration is a global phenomenon today and it is becoming a social issue in Sri Lanka, as the number of migrants are on the increase in every passing year. People migrate to foreign countries in search of a better life for them personally and for their family members in general.
Lack of information and awareness of the rights of migrant workers contribute to their vulnerability as workers in the global labour market. Specially, women migrant workers face specific challenges and with the majority of migrant workers in Sri Lanka, been female, the problems they encounter bring hazards to their families in return. Therefore it has become vital and crucial need for the authorities to look into this problem with a greater commitment.
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