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Fighting fires, fighting pandemics, fighting billionaires. We are the Global Union Federation for public service workers. Over 30mill members in 168 countries. Follow us for news on workers' struggles the world over www.publicservices.international

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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🇪🇺✊ More than 120 unions and campaign groups across Europe, including PSI, @epsu.bsky.social and @globaljusticenow.bsky.social, are calling on governments and the European Commission to scrap all existing public sector contracts with Palantir. #PublicServicesFightback
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Palantir – Out!: 120+ European trade unions and campaign groups demand procurement ban
US tech giant ‘impossible to trust’ with our public services and digital futures. Civil rights and common wealth under threat.
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Global Justice Now @globaljusticenow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
WE SAY NO TO PALANTIR 🙅‍♂️ We and 120+ organisations and unions across Europe are calling on our governments and the European Commission to scrap all existing public sector contracts with Palantir. Read the open letter here: www.globaljustice.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Text reads: 120+ organisations and unions across Europe call on governments and the European Commission to SCRAP Palantir contracts. Palantir provides support to warmongers, drains our public wealth, deepens our dependence on tech billionaires. WE SAY NO TO PALANTIR.
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AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Nicole Pollard @afscmest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It was an honor to join PSI - Public Services International and labor leaders representing public sector unions in more than 50 countries to speak about AFSCME Strong and how it builds worker power to fightback @psiglobalunion.bsky.social
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Complete internatioanl solidarity with @cupescfp.bsky.social and Canada's working people! CUPE's national executive board has passed a unanimous resolution vowing to defy the Liberal government’s proposal (BILL C-39) limiting the constitutional right to strike. ✊🍁🇨🇦 cupe.ca/news/cupe-wi...
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CUPE SCFP @cupescfp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
CUPE will defy Bill C-39’s unconstitutional limits on the right to strike if passed cupe.ca/news/cupe-wi...
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We’re about to receive the minister for Digital Transformation and Civil Service of Spain, Óscar López Águeda, at the #publicservicesfightback conference in Madrid.
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
PSI is hiring! Two senior roles: Global People Manager, and Head of the General Secretary's Office. Help our teams serve our 700 affiliates even better. Apply by 17 September ✊ psishort.link/vacancies #Hiring
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
PSI is hiring a Global People Manager and a Head of the General Secretary's Office. Applications close 19:00 CEST on 17 September. Read the story ✊ publicservices.international/resources/ne...
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
PSI is hiring! Two senior roles: Global People Manager, and Head of the General Secretary's Office. Help our teams serve our 700 affiliates even better. Apply by 17 September ✊ psishort.link/vacancies #Hiring
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
PSI is hiring a Global People Manager and a Head of the General Secretary's Office. Applications close 19:00 CEST on 17 September. Read the story ✊ publicservices.international/resources/ne...
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
PSI is hiring! Two senior roles: Global People Manager, and Head of the General Secretary's Office. Help our teams serve our 700 affiliates even better. Apply by 17 September ✊ psishort.link/vacancies #Hiring
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Applications close 19:00 CEST on 17 September. PSI is recruiting a Global People Manager and a Head of the General Secretary's Office. Join a global movement of public service unions that's growing ✊ psishort.link/vacancies #Hiring
A red enamel sign fixed to a brick wall reading WE'RE HIRING / ESTAMOS CONTRATANDO / NOUS RECRUTONS.
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
L'ISP recrute ! Deux postes de direction : Responsable du Développement des Ressources humaines et Chef.fe de Cabinet du Secrétaire général. Aidez nos équipes à encore mieux servir nos affiliés. Candidatez avant le 17 septembre ✊ psishort.link/vacancies #Recrutement
Un panneau émaillé rouge fixé sur un mur de brique : WE'RE HIRING / ESTAMOS CONTRATANDO / NOUS RECRUTONS.
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Are you an experienced HR leader who shares the values of the trade union movement? PSI is recruiting a Global People Manager to shape how we support staff across our Head Office, regional and country offices. Apply by 17 September ✊ psishort.link/vacancies #Hiring
A red enamel sign fixed to a brick wall reading WE'RE HIRING / ESTAMOS CONTRATANDO / NOUS RECRUTONS.
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
PSI is hiring! Two senior roles: Global People Manager, and Head of the General Secretary's Office. Help our teams serve our affiliates even better. Apply by 17 September ✊ psishort.link/vacancies #Hiring @epsu.bsky.social @labourstart.bsky.social
A red enamel sign fixed to a brick wall reading WE'RE HIRING / ESTAMOS CONTRATANDO / NOUS RECRUTONS.
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"Unions belong to their members, not to the state, and certainly not to the CAQ," said FIQ president Julie Bouchard of Quebec's 'Law 4'. Nine unions have taken the law to the @ilo.org. 🇨🇦 ✊ #Loi4
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Quebec's anti-union law triggers ILO complaint
Nine Quebec unions say Law 4 violates the ILO Convention on Freedom of Association and the Protection of the Right to Organise.
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"Systems that enable tax to be shirked on an industrial scale clearly have to change. Ministers shouldn't award contracts to run public services to firms that are starving them of cash," said UNISON General Secretary Andrea Egan. Palantir pays 1.4% tax worldwide. 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 ✊
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Palantir's tiny 1.4% tax rate exposed
PSI, CICTAR and EPSU, with PSI unions including UNISON and FNV, exposed the tech giant's global effective tax rate.
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Nine Quebec unions have filed a complaint with the International Labour Organization against their provincial government's anti-union law, among them the PSI unions FIQ, APTS, CSQ, SFPQ and SPGQ. 🇨🇦 ✊ #Loi4
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Quebec's anti-union law triggers ILO complaint
Nine Quebec unions say Law 4 violates the ILO Convention on Freedom of Association and the Protection of the Right to Organise.
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Right wing authoritarianism is on the march, billionaires are buying public policy, and public service workers are paying for both. Now is the moment to push back. Come to Madrid on 16-17 September and help us plan the Fightback. 🇪🇸 ✊ #PublicServicesFightback
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Public Services Fightback Conference | Madrid | 16-17 September 2026
Two action-focused days bringing public service workers unions together to understand the new threats we face and to organise their defeat.
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Jan Willem Goudriaan @jwgoudriaan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Workers mobilise across Europe against attacks on Welfare state E.g Netherlands 8/9 @fnv.bsky.social Germany 26th with @dgbbbr.bsky.social France 29th with @cgt.fr @cfdt.fr @force-ouvriere.bsky.social others More coming #solidarity @epsu.bsky.social @strikemap.org @labournetgermany.bsky.social
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FNV roept werknemers Sociale Ontwikkelbedrijven op: ‘Kom 8 september in actie’
De FNV bezoekt op maandag 24 en dinsdag 25 augustus werknemers van de Sociale Ontwikkelbedrijven EMCO en Wedeka. In de pauzes roept de vakbond werknemers op om op 8 september in actie te komen. De FNV...
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Jan Willem Goudriaan @jwgoudriaan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
🚨 Latest issue @epsu.bsky.social collective bargaining news Keep informed about the #strike wave of Europe's public service unions this autumn Or to paraphrase 'big beautiful actions' Further... news on agreements, research... Subscribing is free @cornellilr.bsky.social @ilrreview.bsky.social
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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Hong Kong: ITUC denounces guilty verdict against trade union leader Lee Cheuk-yan bit.ly/4cVCgIw
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FinUnions @finunions.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A report commissioned by the Finnish Confederation of Professionals @sttk.fi found that shorter hours had improved employee #wellbeing at the organisations interviewed without reducing productivity. In some cases, productivity increased. www.helsinkitimes.fi/185-themes/w...
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STTK: Shorter working hours could support employee wellbeing
A report commissioned by STTK says shorter working hours could support employee wellbeing without reducing productivity when workplaces reorganise work and involve staff in planning.
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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
KENYA: Nurses vow to continue strike, reject court return-to-work orders citizen.digital/article/nurs...
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Nurses vow to continue strike, reject court return-to-work orders
Panyako insisted that the union would not call off the strike, despite the court orders.
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Public service unions took workers' demands to the UN tax talks in New York this month. The demand: name labour in the convention. "Without humans, there is no economic creation, there is no profit, there is no 'value'." - Severine Picard, Network of Unions for Tax Justice 🌍 ✊
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Public service unions demand radical reform of global tax rules at the UN
PSI took the demands of public service workers straight to government delegations at the fifth round of UN tax treaty negotiations.
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A unified approach to global corporate tax rules could raise US$500 billion a year in additional revenue - money that is needed for public services. New research from @taxjustice.net and PSI, released just before the UN tax talks in New York. 🌍 ✊ #TaxJustice
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$500bn for public services if the UN adopts fairer corporate tax rules
New research by PSI and the Tax Justice Network on what countries would collect if multinationals paid tax where they genuinely do business.
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Public service unions put Palantir's accounts on the front pages. Now PSI, @cictar.bsky.social, @epsu.bsky.social and @unison.org.uk want governments to review the contracts already signed, and stop handing public money to firms that dodge their share. 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 ✊
PSI graphic headed EXPOSED: Palantir's tiny tax rate is making global headlines, showing torn press clippings from Politico, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Follow the Money, euobserver and Breakthrough News.
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Palantir is facing global scrutiny after PSI, @cictar.bsky.social and @epsu.bsky.social, alongside PSI unions including @unison.org.uk and @fnv.bsky.social, exposed its 1.4% global effective tax rate and zero federal corporate income tax. 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 ✊
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Palantir's tiny 1.4% tax rate exposed: governments must stop awarding contracts to tax avoiders
A new investigation by CICTAR, PSI and EPSU has set off a media storm around the tax affairs of Palantir.
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Palantir has won an estimated £670m in UK government contracts — yet in 2024 it paid just £2.1m in UK tax. “Systems that enable tax to be shirked on an industrial scale clearly have to change” — Andrea Egan, UNISON General Secretary ✊
Quote card with a photo of Andrea Egan, UNISON General Secretary, raising her fist at a UNISON conference podium. The quote reads: Ministers shouldn't award contracts to run public services to firms that are starving them of cash. A red banner cites an estimated 670 million pounds in UK government contracts and an 8.2% effective tax rate.
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“This report shows governments can afford quality public services when corporations and the extremely wealthy pay their fair share” — Daniel Bertossa, PSI General Secretary. Full findings from the PSI, EPSU and CICTAR investigation ✊
Quote card with a photo of Daniel Bertossa, PSI General Secretary, speaking on a conference panel. The quote reads: Companies like Palantir that fail to pay their fair share should not be rewarded with government contracts. A red banner states Palantir's effective global tax rate is just 1.4%.
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Palantir pays an effective global tax rate of just 1.4% while winning major public contracts around the world. Nurses, firefighters and care workers pay their taxes. Governments must stop rewarding tax avoidance with public money. New investigation by PSI, EPSU and CICTAR ✊
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Palantir's tiny 1.4% tax rate exposed: governments must stop awarding contracts to tax avoiders
Palantir pays an effective global tax rate of 1.4% while winning major public contracts. PSI, CICTAR and EPSU urge governments to stop rewarding tax avoiders. The report covers the UK, Netherlands,…
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
🌍✊ Nadia Koubia (UMT, Morocco) asked the question most local leaders avoid: when a council outsources its services, can it still guarantee quality and keep residents' trust? PSI's new agreement with UCLG ( @uclg.bsky.social) puts workers in that decision. ✊ psishort.link/new-GFA
Nadia Koubia, UMT Morocco, quote card
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"We have had years and years of underfunding in our public services. UNISON members all work within public services. Communities are suffering." Like UNISON's General Secretary, Andrea Egan, we want to see public service workers being paid properly and our public services rebuilt.
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
🌍 Emilia Sáiz of UCLG (@uclg.bsky.social) says COVID settled the question for her mayors and governors: they watched public workers keep local services going through the pandemic, and decided they wanted a permanent relationship with their unions. ✊ psishort.link/new-GFA
Emilia Sáiz, Secretary General of UCLG, quote card
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
🌍✊ At IGWG7 on the WHO Pandemic Agreement, PSI's Baba Aye backed the Group for Equity: the PABS annexe must be legally binding — real tech transfer, real transparency. Health over wealth, people before profit. Finish quickly, but finish right. #PABS
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
🌍 Annie Geron (PSLINK Philippines, PSI Asia-Pacific VP) on the new Global Framework Agreement with @uclg.bsky.social : "The just-signed agreement embodies the values we share: transparency, accountability and participation as the foundation of good governance." ✊ Learn more: psishort.link/new-GFA
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
🌍 Fernando Gray, Mayor of Esteban Echeverría (Argentina) & @uclg.bsky.social Vice-President: "We must care for and put priority on our local public service workers — the backbone of public service delivery and key actors of every public service." ✊ Learn more: psishort.link/new-GFA
Quote card — Fernando Gray, Mayor of Esteban Echeverría, UCLG Vice-President.
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
"Nurses and firefighters pay more tax than billionaires and football club owners." – PSI GS Daniel Bertossa. This World Cup, we stand with #TeamPeople against the oligarchs. Try the filter: taxthesuperrich.world/world-cup-te... ✊
PSI General Secretary Daniel Bertossa smiling, wearing a yellow #TaxTheSuperRich #TeamPeople World Cup campaign supporters shirt.
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cictar.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
"When you have such extremely poor distributions of wealth, you start to get quite bad social problems...we haven't reached this level of inequality before because it is so unhealthy on a societal level" www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines... CICTAR's Ed Miller quoted in RNZ piece on Elon Musk
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Elon Musk only marginally less wealthy than all New Zealanders combined
"When you have such extreme or maldistributions of wealth ... you start to get quite bad social problems."
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
🌍 Berry Vrbanovic — Mayor of Kitchener & UCLG Co-President, once a public servant himself — backs the new PSI–UCLG Global Framework Agreement: the first of its kind, a permanent table for social dialogue. ✊ Learn more: psishort.link/new-GFA
Quote card — Berry Vrbanovic, Mayor of Kitchener and UCLG Co-President.
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
🌍 A first of its kind: this week in Morocco, PSI and UCLG signed a new Global Framework Agreement — finally securing a permanent global forum for social dialogue between local governments and the public service workforce. ✊ Learn more: psishort.link/new-GFA
Quote card — Daniel Bertossa, PSI General Secretary, on the new PSI–UCLG Global Framework Agreement.
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
🌍 First of its kind: the new PSI–UCLG Global Framework Agreement recognises how vital our local public service workforce is, and opens fresh chances for affiliate unions to learn, engage and win for members through social dialogue. ✊ Learn more: psishort.link/new-GFA
Quote card — Daniel Bertossa, PSI General Secretary, on decent work and the new PSI–UCLG Global Framework Agreement.
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The flag PSI's Global Committee of LGBTIQA+ Workers raises this Pride is a workers' flag — carried by nurses, teachers, sanitation workers and firefighters, and the unions organising for safe, equal workplaces free from discrimination. Our pride, our strength. 🚩🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊
PSI Global Committee of LGBTIQA+ Workers Pride poster — a worker raising a large rainbow flag, reading: In the month of Pride, we raise the flag for the defence of human rights and against discrimination and violence in society and the world of work. Our pride, our strength.
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
As Pride Month closes, our solidarity goes on. Across PSI's 30-million strong federation of public service workers, we stand with LGBTIQA+ workers and communities — during Pride and every month. Union proud. Union strong. Today and every day. Happy Pride. 🚩🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
🌍 A first of its kind: this week in Morocco, PSI and UCLG signed a new Global Framework Agreement — finally securing a permanent global forum for social dialogue between local governments and the public service workforce. ✊ Learn more: psishort.link/new-GFA
Quote card — Daniel Bertossa, PSI General Secretary, on the new PSI–UCLG Global Framework Agreement.
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Happy World Public Services Day! ✊ 🏥 👩‍🔬 🧹 ⚡️ 📖 Today we celebrate public service workers all across the world — nurses, teachers, scientists, sanitation workers, carers, firefighters, civil servants and cleaners. Without us - there would be no ‘society'.
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
WORKERS SUCCESSFULLY DEFEND GENDER EQUALITY AT THE INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONFERENCE!
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Hope is a verb. At #ILC2026, PSI GS Daniel Bertossa to the ILO: public service workers are already doing it. 🇸🇪 Refusing surveillance on migrants. 🇺🇸 Winning back DOGE-fired civil servants. 🇰🇷 Defending democracy in the streets. 👩‍⚕️🕊️ 🌍 ✊
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
PSI GS Daniel Bertossa addressed the International Labour Organization's #ILC2026 today, showing where and how public service workers are putting hope into action every day. 👩‍⚕️🕊️ "Working people, acting in solidarity, to build a world worth living in — for us all. That is what hope looks like."
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
"This is the banner we raise, the programme we defend, and the struggle we sustain!" - Hernán Doval — GS of CTM Argentina, and CONTRAM-PSI at the ILO #ILC2026 on 3 June, naming the demands of local & regional govt workers across Latin America: publicservices.international/resources/ne... 🇦🇷✊
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