Resources

Call for donations to support PSI affiliates in Palestine

May 2021 witnessed another round of escalation of violence against the occupied Palestinians Territories by Israel that lasted for 11 days.

Support the Strike Fund for Workers in Myanmar

Community Health Work is Work!

Community Health Workers across South Asia launched a campaign to recognise “Community Health Work is Work” on the Unive...

Care Manifesto: Rebuilding the social organisation of care

Today, we are at a crossroads. Covid-19 has brutally exposed the long standing multiple and intersecting crises across the world.

Global Union Day of Action for Myanmar

Free Arrested KCTU President, Yang Kyeung-soo!

Free Yang Kyung-soo

Waive WTO copyrights on Covid-19 medical products!

The Covid-19 waiver is supported by the World Health Organization, UN Human Rights Experts, UNITAID and UNAIDS. See PSI's statement on these proposals below.

TRIPS Waiver Petition Letter

Health workers from India and South Africa call on G7 and EU governments to put people's health before Big Pharma's prof...

TRIPS Waiver Petition Letter

Health workers from India and South Africa call on G7 and EU governments to put people's health before Big Pharma's prof...

Colombia: End the violent attacks on demonstrators

The Colombian people have been on general strike since 28 April 2021. The strike was called in response to tax reforms t...

Brazil: End the anti-union attacks on health workers

Support union leaders Edson Fedelino and Marilurdes Silva de Faria (from Sindsaúde), who were suspended for 30 days with...

Sign the Manifesto for Cultural Workers

Cultural workers help us preserve the past, examine who we are, and imagine who we can become; they deserve to be recogn...

For a world of work free from violence and harassment

Trade unions around the world are demanding the ratification of binding international standards to stop violence and har...

Algerian trade unionist released !

Arbitrarily arrested on 5 April 2021, Mourad Ghedia, President of the SNAPAP/CGATA Justice Sector Workers, was released ...

Global Unions ramp up pressure to isolate Myanmar military junta

Ten Global Unions representing more than 200 million workers from across the world call on unions globally to ramp up pr...

The Future is Public Transport!

Public transport connects us – to our loved ones, our communities, our jobs and our cities. Throughout the COVID-19 pand...

What does water mean to you?

Water means different things to different people. By recording - and celebrating - all the different ways water benefits...

France: Support the EDF Group for a public electricity service

Release women prisoners of conscience in Algeria

This campaign is now closed, after more than 8000 letters of support were sent through the LabourStart campaign, Dalila ...

End the anti-union attacks in the city of São Paulo!

Join the LabourStart campaign - support the Municipal Workers' Union of São Paulo (SINDSEP) in its demands for respect f...

Cancel the debt so doctors and nurses can keep saving lives

A call for urgent action to support doctors and nurses on the frontlines of the Coronavirus pandemic. Sign on to the letter

Safe Workers Save Lives

Coronavirus is a deadly threat to frontline public service workers - in particular, our members in the health sector

Protect Sanitation Workers, Provide Quarantine Pay

The Teamsters are calling on Bill Gates to use his power to protect sanitation workers and their families with clear pol...

Nurses call off strike as minister promises to improve conditions

Call to Action on Domestic Financing for Post-Covid Education

PSI has joined Civil Society and activists from around the world, signing on to this call to action to promote progressi...

End Private Prisons!

Join our global campaign to end the brutality, corruption and warped incentives created by privatised prisons and detention services.

Call for donations after Beirut blast kills seven PSI members

Two PSI affiliates the Beirut Port Syndicate and the Workers Union of the Electricity of Lebanon were directly hit by th...

Sign on to the education support personnel manifesto on dealing with the COVID-19 crisis

PSI is calling on trade unions and civil society to sign on to our Manifesto and to mobilise in the demand for the recog...

Sign on to the Nurses Manifesto - No Going Back!

On International Nurses Day, millions of nurses around the world will be calling on governments to make genuine gestures...

Our last chance on climate?

Sixteen-year old Greta Thunberg from Sweden is inspiring a global movement for collective action on climate change. On M...

Fill in the global remunicipalisation survey

As part of its work on “remunicipalisation” – a term that is increasingly used worldwide to indicate the return of priva...

Urgent Action: Call for the Australian Senate to drop the Ensuring Integrity Bill

PSI affiliates in Australia are facing an extreme, anti-democratic union-busting piece of legislation that is currently before the Australian Parliament.

Support the strike of health workers in AMEOS

Demand the reinstatement of sacked union leaders!

Reinstate Municipal Workers in Aliağa

Turkey

Hear the Voices of our Children in Cages

Join our event on 17 June, during the #ILC2019 #ILO100, to amplify the voices of separated families and children in dete...

Petition to reintegrate whistleblower in Quebec

Whistleblower Louis Robert, agronomist and seed expert at the Quebec Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ministry, has been ...

Campaign to protect whistleblowers

In anticipation of a European Directive on the Protection on Whistleblowers, the The Greens/European Free Alliance has o...

South Korean government responds to workers’ demands for justice for young worker Kim Yong-gyun

The South Korean government has announced today a series of measures in response to the tragic death of 24-year-old powe...

Guatemala: Union leaders imprisoned for having negotiated collective agreement

PSI is calling on all affiliates to join the LabourStart campaign calling for the immediate release of Dora Regina Ruano...

31 October: UN World Cities Day – “Stop precarious work in local public services!”

On UN World Cities Day 2018, PSI calls the United Nations, governments and mayors to halt the widespread use of precario...

Our water, our right! NO to privatisation!

Stop Public-Private Partnership agreement between Lagos and foreign private firms - a scam and a ploy to extort the peop...

International Youth Day 2018 - #SafeSpaces4Youth

For International Youth Day 2018 on 12 August, Public Services International (PSI) is calling on all affiliates and youn...

Castries Declaration on Debt Sustainability and Financing for Development

PSI affiliates in the Caribbean sub-region have committed to developing both a national, sub-regional and global respons...

Urgent action and accountability for the 2030 Agenda: now or never

PSI has signed on to the civil society statement in response to the Secretary-General's SDG progress report and the Mini...

#NotATarget: The lives of health workers in Gaza must be protected

PSI urges all affiliates to call on the governments of their countries to take immediate action to stop the targeting of...

HEALTH FOR ALL: marking the 2018 World Health Day

Saturday 7 April is the 2018 World Health Day (WHD). This date was chosen to draw global attention to international heal...

Education is not a tradable good

Among different type of private actors involved in education, commercial schools raise specific challenges. Commercial s...

The End of Water Privatisation?

Across the world, a wave of remunicipalisations has delivered water services back into public hands, often after decades of private mismanagement.

EQUAL PAY – WAGE JUSTICE

On March 8, PSI stands with women around the world demanding an end to gender-based discrimination at work and calling f...

Solidarity with American unions facing dangerous Janus vs AFSCME Supreme Court case

We ask you to show solidarity with PSI’s affiliates in the United States of America, where another attack on the labour movement is imminent.

Algeria: New government attack on independent energy union (update)

The government of Algeria is escalating its war on the independent union of electricity and gas workers SNATEGS, which o...

Sounding the alarm on dangerous public-private partnerships (PPPs).

Public Services International, EURODAD and other CSO partners jointly urge all those concerned with justice, equality, s...

World Cities Day 2017: Municipal workers make cities happen!

PSI has chosen 31 October – UN “World Cities Day” - to launch a global visual campaign aimed at raising awareness about ...

World Bank must stop promoting “dangerous” public-private partnerships – New Global Campaign launched!

A new campaign aimed at reversing the dangerous rush to promote expensive and high-risk public-private partnerships (PPP...

Taking back control

Governments must ensure that they act in the best interest of their communities by providing quality public services. Th...

Public administration workers of the Spanish foreign service go on strike on 16 October: 9-year wage freeze must end now!

For the last nine years, public administration employees working abroad for the Spanish state have suffered an unjust an...

URGENT REQUEST FOR ENDORSEMENT of global union and civil society letter on the WTO

You may be aware PSI works with global civil society groups to ensure trade agreements benefit all and not just large co...

Colombia: trade union leader faces arbitrary sanction

PSI is calling on all affiliates to join the LabourStart campaign in support of Carlos E. Castañeda Ravelo who is facing...

Hurricanes Irma and Maria: appeal for donations

PSI is calling on its affiliates to support the call for donations to the PSI Aid Fund to help our sisters and brothers ...

Fight Privatization at Bridge International Academies!

Civil society call on investors to cease support to Bridge International Academies - Growing evidence and analysis publi...

Turkey: Solidarity fund for trade unions

In the aftermath of the failed coup that took place last July, the Turkish government has arrested and detained thousand...

Right to Health campaign

Right to Health campaign

Inspiring campaigning! #TaxJustice for Women's Rights Global Days of Action

The final week of the #TaxJustice for Women's Rights Global Days of Action has been extremely busy. These have been trul...

Support Fair and Ethical Recruitment: #NoRecruitmentFees

Join the PSI campaign to abolish the practice of charging recruitment fees on migrant workers. Sign on to the Manifesto ...

Water is a human right - Stop water privatization in Greece

All EU member state residents are invited to sign the petition launched by the German “Network for solidarity with Greec...

EU: whistleblowers need wide and comprehensive legal protection - Sign the petition!

On 17 October a platform for a EU-wide whistleblower protection was launched by 44 organizations calling on the European...

Hurricane Matthew in Haiti: appeal for donations

Hurricane Matthew wrought devastation as it made landfall in Haïti on 3 and 4 October, killing hundreds, displacing thou...

Stay strong, Korean public workers! Stop labour repression!

Trade unions in Korea are campaigning for the Park Geun-hye government’s proposed legislation for a discriminatory perfo...

Respect the right to organise - Reinstate Liberian trade union leaders NOW!

The Liberian regime has no respect for basic Human Rights; or Workers Rights! In Liberia, the government has arbitra...

Urgent action: solidarity with Vice President of KPTU in Korea

PSI calls all its affiliates to support the Korean Public Services and Transportation Workers Union (KPTU) Vice Presiden...

MSF: solidarity call for support

Médecins sans Frontiers / Doctors without Borders (MSF) has decided to no longer receive funds from the EU and EU Member...

Tell the World Bank to stop promoting water privatization

PSI is working with a number of allies to put pressure on the World Bank to stop promoting water privatization under the...

The right to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association for disenfranchised workers

In his upcoming report to the UN General Assembly to be presented in October 2016, the Special Rapporteur will examine t...

Tunisia : General strike due to negotiations deadlock

On 19 May, health workers in Tunisia, members of PSI affiliate Fédération Générale de la Santé (FGS), organised a genera...

Ecuador earthquake: Solidarity call for aid

Following the devastating earthquake that took place in Ecuador on 16 April, PSI is calling on all affiliates to donate ...

Stand with the Pearson 100 and let your voice be heard

Public employee and education unions have mobilized a global capital campaign in support of shareholders resolution at the Pearson PLC Annual General Meeting.

Support the Korean Education workers' strike on 1st April!

On 1 April, PSI affiliate KPTU-EdSol and other education support workers' unions will go on a 24-hours strike calling fo...

Water and Sanitation are Human Rights, NOW!

On 22 March, PSI celebrated World Water Day. The UN Sustainable Development Goal 6 requires that governments ensure univ...

8th of March: Transforming the world of work for equal pay

Public Services International (PSI) promotes the work of women trade unionists and stands united with all of our sisters...

Race to sign TPPA highlights growing public anger

Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) advocates are racing to have the deal signed in New Zealand on February 4th, ...

India: Coalition unites to block PPP water privatization schemes

According to Corporate Accountability International, groups plan a series of escalating events to expose the truth about...

Government of Ecuador wants to overturn democratically elected rector of university

The government of Ecuador is trying to overturn the democratically elected rector of the Andean University of Simon Boli...

Trade unionists killed and arrested in Turkey

Sanitation worker Mehmet Kaplan, father of three children and member of PSI affiliate DİSK/Genel-İş Union in Cizre Munic...

Sign the petition against water privatisation in India

A group of trade unions in India is addressing a petition to the World Bank, calling on them to end their promotion and ...

Solidarity with trade unionists in Korea

UPDATE 10 December 2015: KCTU President Han Sang-gyun is in detention after handing himself over to the police. Trade un...

Join the social media storm against fracking

Public Services International (PSI) is supporting the Food & Water Watch initiative to Ban fracking Now. Please join the social media storm on 10 December!

Just Transition for the workforce and the creation of decent work and quality jobs

Public Services International (PSI) and its European representative European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) ...

Support PCS strike at London's National Gallery

Staff at London's National Gallery, organised by PSI affiliate the Public and commercial services union (PCS), have been...

Campaign to restore trade union rights in Ecuador

The United Collective of Workers, Social and Indigenous Organisations of Ecuador held a national strike on 13 August to ...

The support for energy privatisation in Nigeria is not acceptable

Millions of pounds of UK aid money has been used to support the privatisation of Nigeria’s electricity system. The resul...

Post-2015 Development Agenda - Statement

In advance of the United Nations Summit on Financing for Development, 150 organisations have signed a petition to exclud...

Open letter: Nurses, Midwives and Healthcare workers speak out against aspects of the TPP

In an open letter to trade ministers, prime ministers and presidents of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) countries, nurse...

Deep concern about the World Bank support for privatisation in education

On 14 May, more than 100 organisations across the world released a joint open statement expressing deep concerns about t...

Nepal needs your help

PSI is urgently calling on its affiliates to send funds for the immediate relief of PSI members and to assist in rebuilding communities in Nepal.

Trade unionists in Swaziland under attack

Trade unionists and activists are subjected to intensified attacks in Swaziland, the only remaining absolute monarchy.

Guatemala’s President defies the ILO by cancelling all collective agreements in the public sector

Only days before Guatemala is due for discussion at the ILO’s Governing Body, President General Otto Pérez Molina, takes...

Hands off our right to strike!

Public Services International joins the ITUC, ITF, EI and other Global Labour Federations in calling for unions to act i...

Turkey: PSI General Secretary meets dismissed health care workers, denounces attack on labour rights

In December 2014, the hospital of Maltepe University in Istanbul dismissed nearly 100 workers for being members of the P...

Government of Peru tries to silence union leader

PSI is urgently calling for letters of protest to be sent to the Peruvian Minister of Labour in support of Luis Isarra (...

Solidarity call for aid against impacts of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD)

#protecthealthworkers - PSI is calling on all affiliates to donate to the PSI Aid Fund. The funds will be used for the i...

ILO Standard on Gender Based Violence

The November 2014 session of the ILO Governing Body will again discuss a proposal to include a standard setting item on ...

Gaza crisis: Solidarity call for aid and humanitarian relief

Public Services International (PSI) is deeply concerned about the conflict in Gaza and deplores the resumption of fighti...

Robin Hood Tax arrives for the common good in Europe

Public Services International welcomes the landmark news that 10 EU countries have agreed to introduce a financial trans...

International Workers' Day - 1 May 2014

The first of May symbolizes the struggle of the international labour movement. In 2014, International Workers’ Day, May ...

New global threat to public services

On Monday 28th April, PSI affiliates, in collaboration with civil society organisations across the world, are mobilising...

28 April International Workers' Memorial Day

No more excuses! It is the duty of governments and enterprises to protect the health and safety of workers

Tell Ecuador’s President: Stop the persecution of social and labour activists

The former leader of an organization affiliated with Public Services International (PSI) in Ecuador and two others were ...

Racism? Not for us!

Speak out and take a stand against racism and xenophobia! On the eve of the United Nations International Day for the Eli...

Peru water privatisation - stop robbing workers and citizens of their rights

The global union federation Public Services International and our affiliate unions in Peru call on supporters around the...

Support for Ukrainian trade unions

PSI affiliates in Ukraine have requested assistance to help them to re-build Trade Union House, the headquarters of the ...

Trans Pacific Partnership is bad news for workers – call to action

Many unions and civil society groups fighting the Trans Pacific Partnership and the Fast Track process of this terrible ...

Firefighters on hunger strike in Georgia

Public Services International (PSI) and the European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) fully support the protes...

Turkey: Stop the judicial harassment of trade unionists

PSI joins EPSU and ITUC in denouncing the Turkish government’s anti-union attacks as well as the abuse of the Turkish le...

Support Korean workers – hold protests at Korean embassies on 9 and 16-18 January

PSI affiliate KPTU asks for continued global support in its fight for worker rights and quality public services. All af...

Innovative non-profit water partnerships in ACP countries

PSI is calling upon affiliates to sign on to letter sent to the EU Commissioner for Development expressing concern abou...

FirstEnergy locks out utility workers in US

FirstEnergy Corp. – one of the largest electric power corporations in the United States – locked out 150 members of the ...

Algeria: Reinstate Rachid Malaoui and end trade union rights violations now!

Public Services International, together with the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), the International Union...

Take action: International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women - 25 November 2013

PSI is calling on all its affiliate members, men and women, to make a pledge to end violence against women and girls, at...

Please send donations for the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan

Public Services International is collecting donations via the PSI Aid Fund to help our sisters and brothers in the Phili...

Stick with it! We want a Financial Transaction Tax now!

For many years, the coalition of “Europeans For Financial Reform” has been campaigning for the introduction of a Financi...

UN derecognizes staff unions, refuses to negotiate

PSI urges all trade unionists to call on your UN Member States and Foreign Ministers and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moo...

Typhoon Haiyan: Solidarity support to all PSI affiliates in the Philippines

Members of the PSI Steering Committee have expressed their solidarity and deepest condolences to all people in the Phili...

Violence against trade union leadership continues in Guatemala

Latest update: On October 11, Juan Jose Ortiz, SNTSG member and Financial Secretary of the Health Centre of Barberena Sa...

PSI calls for international support for United Nations workers’ rights

In the summer of 2013, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon unilaterally decided to strip UN unions of negotiating right...

Call for a Robin Hood Tax Now

You can help send a message to European Union leaders that this tiny tax on banks is vital. It will curb harmful specula...

PSI stands with Detroit and public workers

Detroit is the largest city to file for bankruptcy in United States history. But it is not the only city in economic cri...

PSI supports its affiliates in PERU! Send a letter through LabourStart now!

The roundtable dialogue between unions and the government will resume on 29 August 2013. We hope that this time the gove...

Sign the Quality Public Services Charter

PSI invites you to join the world-wide campaigns for quality public services, the foundation of both free and equal soci...

Why trade agreements are a new global threat to public services

Recently, the way trade deals are negotiated has changed from WTO multilateral negotiations where hundreds of countries ...

Act now to unban the trade union movement in Swaziland

Public Services International calls on its affiliates to support the campaign of the Trade Union Congress in Swaziland (...

Letter to Thessaloniki water bidders

Please support the letter to the investors and companies that wish to partake in the privatisation of the water company ...

23 June Public Services Day: A global tax justice movement to end inequality

On 23 June, World Public Services Day, PSI stands with the world’s largest labour and non-governmental organisations in ...

Turkey: End police violence now!

PSI joins the ITUC and other global unions in supporting the international days of action on 21-22 June and calling on t...

Solidarity with Korean education support workers

Public Services International has received a request from the Korean Public & Social Services and Transportation Wor...

To win quality public services we must have tax justice

More and more people are seeing the damage caused by regressive taxes. Stagnant economies. Lost jobs. Sky-high youth une...

Week of action for Guatemala

In Guatemala, more than 50 trade unionists, most of them public sector workers, have been murdered in the last three yea...

Your Future in Public Hands

Public services are under attack and action is needed to ensure that in the future quality public services will be avail...

International Workers' Day - 1 May 2013

Your future is in public hands - quality public services for all! The international labour movement celebrates 1 May i...

Voices of the living and the dead cry out for justice in Guatemala

Two women trade unionists, Santa Alvarado, member of PSI affiliate SNTSG, and Kira Zulueta Enriquez Mena, have been brut...

End violence against women now! International Women's Day 8 March 2013

Public Services International joins our members across the globe in celebrating the social, political and economic chang...

More arrests of Turkish trade unionists - take action now!

Latest update: 72 members of the public sector union were released from jail on 10 April, some after nearly ten months o...

Russia: A power engineer must not be poor

Russian energy workers are in discussion with their employers concerning wages and working conditions. They request that...

Mexico: Days of action for trade union rights

In association with other Global Union Federations, PSI is mobilising internationally for trade union rights in Mexico during the week 18-24 February 2013.

18 December International Migrants Day - “Workers’ solidarity is needed in times of crisis”

On 18 December 2012 – United Nations International Migrants Day - “Workers’ solidarity is needed in times of crisis,” sa...

14 November 2012 - Public Services International stands in solidarity

Public Services International stands in solidarity with the hundreds of thousands of workers and PSI members who will be...

Support jailed Turkish unionists

Seven months after their arrest, 15 female Turkish unionists are still in jail, accused of belonging to a terrorist orga...

Chad: Unionists sentenced to prison

Three trade union leaders in Chad have been sentenced to 18 months in prison after denouncing the situation in the count...

PSI Solidarity message to Egyptian trade unions

PSI sends solidarity message to Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions - EFITU.

Swaziland - Stop the crackdown on public workers

The government of Swaziland is cracking down on public sector workers across the board. Civil servants, nurses, teachers...

A gold medal for solidarity

London's bus workers have won a huge victory. Now, it's the cleaners' turn. Just three days before the opening of the ...

A Financial Transactions Tax for the future we want

Rio de Janeiro – 22 June 2012: The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, known as RIO+20, has taken ...

Send your protest against arrests in Turkey

The harassment and intimidation of trade unionists in Turkey continues: in the early morning hours on June 25, the Turki...

Algeria: judicial workers on hunger strike

In protest against repeated human and trade union rights violations, nine union members, five women and four men, began ...

PSI deeply concerned about Russia's situation in the World Trade Organisation

After 18 years of negotiations behind closed doors, Russia is expected to ratify and sign the WTO accession in July. PSI...

PSI expressing Solidarity with Quebec Students

The executive board of PSI has expressed support for students in Quebec.

PSI demands justice for health workers in Bahrain

At the meeting of PSI's Health and Social Care Services Task Force in Geneva on 20 April 2012, Public Services Internati...

Some signs of change in Botswana - but yet to see the results

Earlier this year the government of Botswana categorically stated that there will be no collective bargaining for the pe...

Implementing the Right to Water in the green economy

Water Justice activists, including PSI unions, have successfully pushed the human right to water and sanitation (RTW) on...

15 public sector trade unionists have been arrested in Turkey

On 13 February 2012, 15 women union leaders and activists belonging to PSI and EPSU affiliates SES (Trade Union of Publi...

Ecuador: 3,000 public employees unfairly dismissed

Several thousand public servants, mainly in the health and public administration sectors were recently arbitrarily dismi...

No to Austerity!

Public services and public service workers are under pressure in almost all European countries with austerity measures a...

Apply a financial transaction tax to heal global inequities

Public Services International affiliate healthcare members from Europe and elsewhere are invited to join the delegation ...

It’s a matter of democracy – Vote to block water privatisation

Public Services International requests urgent assistance from unions and NGOs to help overturn plans for water privatisa...