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Policy and Issues
Public Services International is active
in all parts of the public sector:
- public administration and public
services at the national, regional and municipal level, serving social,
political, economic, trade and business purposes;
- energy, water, sewerage and drainage,
gas, housing and air traffic control;
- public works projects such as road
building and maintenance;
- health services;
- social services;
- protection of the natural
environment;
- security, including police, road
traffic, defence, fire-fighting;
- legal, justice systems and
prisons;
- cultural and recreational services,
including broadcasting, libraries, museums, public parks and national
parks;
- customs and taxation
services.
PSI is concerned with issues vital for
the users of public services, the workers providing these services and
the politicians who determine the scope and quality of public
services.
- Public sector
reform - quality services for all and how to get
there;
- Public sector
finances - taxes and how to make ends meet;
- Health-
costs and needs and quality health care for people;
- Social
Services - childcare and care of the elderly and how to stop
the cuts;
- Public utilities - energy, water and
waste: basic necessities that generates big money for transnational
corporations;
- The environment - pollution, waste, the
local and the global situation and what to do about it;
- Educational, cultural and recreational
services.
We believe in effective and efficient public services and a society
which displays the following features:
- collective and co-operative
values;
- a democratic society;
- democratic public services;
- a responsive and effective public
sector;
- a strong and comprehensive public
sector as outlined above;
- a strong economy;
- a fair workplace.
Of course, as an international federation of public sector trade unions,
our focus is on representing, promoting and defending the needs and
interests of public sector workers. Recently, this work has been
dominated by the new challenges of globalisation, the threats from
ideological privatisation, commercialisation and contracting out of
public services, the potential offered by public sector modernisation
and quality services, the attacks on services through structural
adjustment policies and the intrusion of transnational corporations into
public services.Most of these issues are now permeating all PSI public
sector work.
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