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Public Services for the Public Good: PSI statement on the Trade In Services Agreement (TISA)

2 Dec 2013

Universal quality public services and decent work are goals of economic development, to which international trade is but a means. Trade treaty rules should not force privatisation, nor interfere with the restoration or expansion of public services, where experiments with private provision fail or are rejected by democratically-elected governments. Trade treaties must not close policy space or inhibit innovation in public service provision.

PSI Statement on the 9th WTO Ministerial Conference

27 Nov 2013

The results of decades of corporate-led globalisation are clear for the majority of the world. Unemployment continues to afflict millions and is especially acute for the world’s youth. Inequality is growing and quality public services and labour rights are being undermined. Liberalisation of and financial speculation in commodities markets has produced ruinous price fluctuations for food and shortages that create untold harm and avoidable loss of life. The global economic crisis caused by the reckless and unregulated actions of the private financial markets has created untold suffering for workers and is now being used as the reason to implement punitive and misguided austerity programmes.

PSI Steering Committee and staff, November 2013

Communiqué: Public Services International Steering Committee SC-17

25 Nov 2013

Angered by the continuing attacks on public services and the workers who provide these services, distressed by the rising inequality across the world and the failure of the current economic system to provide jobs, particularly for young people, the Steering Committee reiterated its commitments to the 2013-2017 Programme of Action “Social Justice through Quality Public Services” and endorsed priority actions for 2014.

PSI violence against women poster

Posters: International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

18 Nov 2013

PSI calls on all its affiliate members, men and women, to make a pledge to end violence against women and girls, at each of their workplaces around the globe. Use these posters available in eight languages

Programme of Action 2013-2017: Social Justice through Trade Union Rights and Quality Public Services

30 Nov 2012

Public Services International’s “Programme of Action 2013-2017” was submitted by the PSI Executive Board as Resolution N°1 to PSI’s 29th World Congress, held in Durban, South Africa, on 27-30 November 2012, where it was adopted.

Members of PSI delegation to Guatemala

Reports: Solidarity mission to Guatemala

15 Oct 2013

A compilation of reports by members of the PSI international delegation of trade union leaders who met with Guatemala’s President and leading ministers on August 13-14, 2013.

Public services and decent work for all

07 October 2013
ITUC Poster for WDDW

On 7 October we celebrate the World Day for Decent Work. Public Services International (PSI) joins the international trade union movement in demanding decent work for all and an end to the continuous attacks on trade union rights around the world. We want jobs that provide decent salaries and social security with safe working conditions.

PSI Global Energy Meeting

Date: 
24 September, 2013 to 25 September, 2013

PSI unions will deal with the major challenges facing workers in energy and develop strategies to organise and mobilise in-country, by region and globally. We will ask 4-5 unions to help develop the agenda.

PSIRU Paper - International Financial Institutions and Energy Investments

20 Sep 2013

This paper examines: - The activities of the international financial institutions (IFIs) as they affect finance for the energy sector, through their preferences for private companies and insistence on eliminating price subsidies - How investments to extend electricity networks and develop new electricity generation depend largely on public finance - The annexe includes lists of current IFI projects affecting the energy sector

PSIRU Paper - Energy Liberalisation, privatisation and public ownership

20 Sep 2013

This paper reviews the trends in privatisation and liberalisation in the energy sector, and the development of remunicipalisation and renationalisation in Germany and elsewhere.