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In a rare demonstration of concern for health workers in Liberia, President George Weah showered praise on them for their selfless efforts, despite appalling working conditions in the health services.

The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, closed the Labour conference "Alternative Models of Ownership Conference" outlining how the Labour wants the community to take back control of the British economy and put it in the hands of the many, not the few. He also referred to the PSI report "Reclaiming Public Services" - how cities and citizens are turning back privatisation around the world.

Jakarta vice-governor Sandiaga Uno met with an international delegation including PSI Deputy General Secretary David Boys, Satoko Kishimoto, researcher with the Transnational Institute and former deputy mayor of Paris and former head of Eau de Paris Anne Le Strat.

Rosa Pavanelli, General Secretary of Public Services International met with Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization at the WHO headquarters on 8 February. She expressed PSI’s appreciation of the WHO Executive Board’s admittance of the global trade union federation into Official Relations.

PSI General Secretary Rosa Pavanelli chaired a video conference with union leaders from across the world today to address the dangerous upcoming US Supreme Court case “Janus vs AFSCME.”

A heightening campaign among trade unions is pushing back against the Adiyan Phase II Water Scheme which constitutes a major threat on the security of water of Nigeria’s capital.

The Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation has launched a new publication presenting concrete solutions to reorient the existing system of international taxation away from serving the wealthy few and to focus it instead on addressing the needs of the vast majority of the population.

Today, the global union federations PSI, ITUC, IndustriALL and IUF delivered a joint letter to the Algerian Mission in Geneva to protest against the imminent trial of trade union leaders affiliated to the General Confederation of Autonomous Workers in Algeria (CGATA).

Workers across public services in Chad have launched a general strike to protest against the government’s austerity measures.