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Mexico

IAMRECON meetings discuss ten topics in two-day conference

22 April 2015
Municipal sector photo: Eduardo Gonzaga

The ten topics discussed on 20-21 April were: Central Administration, Customs, Education, Water, State Control, Energy, Justice, Legislation, Health and Municipalities. Municipal workers brought contributions from three sector-level conferences to the regional meeting.

11th PSI Inter-American Regional Conference (IAMRECON)

Date: 
20 April, 2015 to 24 April, 2015

Advancing trade union rights in the struggle for quality public services!

Emergencies and Disasters

03 April 2015

PSI represents first responders and frontline workers. These are the people who put their lives at risk in order to protect and save your families. First responders include firefighters and emergency medical technicians, police and other uniformed services. They are also the frontline workers in hospitals and health clinics, in schools, in energy and water utilities; in public transport; in civil administration and in a range of other areas. All of us depend on these people being able to do their jobs, having the right tools and training.

PSI Americas 2nd Regional LGBT Committee

Date: 
27 October, 2014

PSI Americas will hold its second Regional LGBT Committee in Mexico City, in parallel with the 27th ILGA World Conference.

Ebola Response

24 October 2014

Deaths to health workers accounted for six percent of all deaths confirmed as due to EVD, even to the end of the outbreaks. Over 500 health workers, including members of PSI affiliated unions, were killed in the line of duty. PSI is actively lobbying national governments, the ILO and WHO and working with health and allied care workers in our unions to rebuild health systems that can resist future outbreaks in the context of universal access to essential healthcare, which is the core of the post-2015 agenda for health.

Municipal workers of Americas create a new regional organisation

21 August 2014

The Confederation of Municipal Workers – PSI Americas (CONTRAM) held its founding congress in Mexico on 4 - 6 August 2014. This new organisation represents the specific interests of municipal workers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Invitation to the 11th PSI Inter-American regional conference and related meetings

26 Jun 2014

The Conference itself will be held on April 23 - 24 and will be preceded by several meetings concerning sectoral and transverse issues, which will be held on April 20, 21 and 22. The Regional Women's Committee will meet at the end of April 20 and the IAMREC will meet at the end of April 21 and of April 22. All of these events will be held in the Fiesta Americana Hotel and other hotels nearby and will be organized in cooperation with local affiliates.

Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP)

09 April 2014

International trade agreements such as the TPP are currently being fast-tracked and negotiated in secrecy. These agreements undermine local and national government decision-making power and increase corporate access to public services resulting in the privatization of critical public services. PSI is working with global union federations, affiliated unions, and civil society allies who oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) being negotiated in the Asia Pacific Region.

Trade in Services Agreement (TISA)

02 April 2014

PSI is currently undertaking further research on the effects of the TISA on our sectors. PSI will be working with civil society and other allies to oppose the harmful effects of the TISA.

Social protection floors

30 March 2014

Today, as much as 80 per cent of the global population does not have access to social protection and lives in social insecurity, facing complete loss of income when a personal or national economic crisis strikes. Social Protection was pushed to the fore of the international agenda after the obvious damage due to the financial and economic crises, and a 2012 ILO Recommendation operationalizes Social Protection Floors as two-pronged, providing universal access to essential health care and basic income security in the case of maternity, for children and when people are sick, unemployed, disabled, and old. Read more>>>