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PSI key policy documents

Find here the document “Putting People over Profit” which outlines PSI’s priorities for the implementation of the PoA until 2022; PSI's Programme of Action; Constitution and Resolutions adopted at our 30th World Congress in Geneva, Switzerland, 30 October-3 November 2017.
Global campaign: A better Future with Public Health for All

PSI has launched a global campaign for the Human Right to Health that aims at building a mass global movement that could influence concrete policies towards attaining Universal Public Health Coverage (UPHC). #PublicHealth4All
One Day video series

PSI launches a video series featuring 16 stories from nine countries – Philippines, Japan, Indonesia, Italy, USA, Chad, Lebanon, Guatemala and Brazil - to praise the work of public servants around the world.

See website: http://oneday.world-psi.org
STOP gender-based violence at work!

Sexual harassment and assault are part of most women’s professional lives, in less than a month the last round of tripartite negotiations will take place on the ILO instruments with a view to adopting an ILO Convention & Recommendation. Join the campaign #EndGBV - #StopGBVatWork

Highlights

Workers mark 700 days on picket-line against tax-dodging Exxon Mobil & UGL/CIMIC

Gas workers in Australia today mark 700 days since beginning a picket against Exxon Mobil & UGL/CIMIC, after the company slashed wages by up to 40%, cut 40 years of hard fought conditions, stripped a number of employee allowances & imposed a stand down clause that will see workers at work, but without pay.
Saving lives is not a crime

EPSU and PSI stand in solidarity with their British firefighters’ affiliate, FBU, in its protest against the prosecution of Spanish firefighter Miguel Roldán for rescuing, as a volunteer on a NGO rescue ship, thousands of people from drowning in the Mediterranean sea.
Fresenius: unions launch first-ever global care workers’ alliance

In parallel with Fresenius’ annual general meetings of shareholders, trade unions will launch the Fresenius Global Union Alliance on 16 and 17 May in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. Unions demand that the healthcare giant negotiates a Global Agreement to secure workers' rights in all its operations.
2019 Caribbean Sub-regional Women’s Advisory Committee Meeting (Saint Vincent)

Thirty women trade union activists, representing 14 of PSI’s affiliates in the Caribbean are participating in the 2019 Women’s Advisory Committee meeting in Saint Vincent.
Two thousand Tunisian municipal cleaners demand safe working conditions and statutory recognition for their profession

Two thousand municipal workers from Tunisia’s waste management services gathered on April 28th, World Day for Safety and Health at Work, to demand safe and healthy working conditions, adequate personal protective equipment for all, and the recognition of their professional status at national level.
PSI Statement Following the Detention of Trade Unionists in Fiji Whilst ADB Watches On

As the Asian Development Bank (ADB) annual meeting concludes in Nadi, Fiji, PSI expresses our outrage and dismay that the Government of Fiji marked the event, which coincided with May Day, with the arrest and detention of trade unionists, including the General Secretary of our affiliate, the Fiji Nursing Association, Salanieta Matiavi.