It's tomorrow: New report on #Palantir's tax affairs EPSU & CICTAR are publishing a report on how Palantir's global tax structure drains funding for public services. 🚨Spoiler: They pay almost no corporate tax in Europe. Wanna be among the first to read it? Sign up here👇🏾 forms.gle/ARRMSva13Cc5...

📸 @labourstart.bsky.social’s Photo of the Week: healthcare workers on strike in Bucharest! They work nights, weekends and holidays. Now proposed “reforms” would cut the payments that recognise it. EPSU stands with SANITAS against this #PublicServicesEmergency! ✊

🚨🗨️“We simply cannot cope any longer.” SANITAS Vice-President Răzvan Gae warns that understaffing, burnout and dangerous conditions are putting healthcare workers - and patients - at risk. Ignoring workers and cutting allowances will deepen the #PublicServicesEmergency. EPSU stands with SANITAS. ✊

Today’s lesson in grammar: 🗨️I pay. 🗨️You pay. 🗨️We pay. One company appears to have learned a very irregular version of the verb. 🤔 Sign up to discover who: forms.gle/ARRMSva13Cc5...

🚑The sirens are sounding in Bucharest - Europe should listen. Ambulances gathered in front of Romania's Parliament as part of their strike against the new public sector salary law government imposed. 🚨The sirens are just a symbol of #PublicServicesEmergency they have been going through for years!

👩🏾‍⚕️ Thousands of healthcare workers. 🏥 Hundreds of workplaces. 🇷🇴 Romania has come to a halt. Healthcare workers are striking for fair pay and real social dialogue. They are declaring a #PublicServicesEmergency after the government imposed a new salary law. 👊🏾 EPSU stands in solidarity with SANITAS!

🚨 Strike ballots in Ireland. Mobilisation in France. Healthcare workers preparing a general strike in Romania. Across Europe, unions are fighting the #PublicServicesEmergency with collective action! Read the latest EPSU Collective Bargaining newsletter👇 www.epsu.org/epsucob/july...

📌Brussels Six workers lost their lives here at the Oxy Tower fire. Today, we remember them. When preventible, it's not an "accident" anymore. We need well-resourced labour inspectorates for stronger prevention. Workers' safety is not optional. This is a #PublicServicesEmergency! Austerity kills!

Today is the EU Day for the Victims of the Global Climate Crisis. 🇧🇪 Belgium recorded 1,747 excess deaths during the latest heatwave. 🇫🇷 Heatwave pushed hospitals towards breaking point as the number of patients soared in France. 🔥 Wildfires have swept across Spain, France, Portugal and the UK.

🇧🇪 In the last 24 hours in Belgium: ⚠️ Dozens of people were hospitalised after a chemical leak at the Port of Antwerp. ⚠️ 6 workers lost their lives in the OXY Tower fire in Brussels. Just two weeks ago, Belgium recorded 1,747 excess deaths, during the recent heatwave. #PublicServicesEmergency

🚨 BREAKING: Employers support the Pay Transparency Directive! BusinessEurope's own report reveals something remarkable. Around 60% of employers say the EU Pay Transparency Directive is not an administrative burden. Yet BusinessEurope continues lobbying against it. Watch the video to find out why👇🏾

🎉 EPSU delivers for care workers! Renewal of Clariane - European Works Council agreement has been unanimously approved! ✅ Stronger social dialogue ✅ Annual meetings in every country ✅ Joint work on an AI Charter ✊🏾 Care workers are at the forefront of the fight against #PublicServicesEmergency!

✊🏾 New action alert: @social.verdi.de members at works councils in waste, water, energy sectors joined the #PublicServicesEmergency call! Thousands of workers took part in Public Services Emergency actions so far. We need: ◾ Higher pay ◾ More staff ◾ Public investment © Sylvia Stumpf

Thousands of workers and countless workplaces across Europe. One fight, one message: address the #PublicServicesEmergency! We need: ◾Higher wages ◾More staff ◾Public investment End austerity! ✊🏾 #Solidarity to all ver.di members who joined the campaign!

Across Germany, ver.di officials and works council members continued spreading the message. From utilities to local government, workplace representatives are organising against the #PublicServicesEmergency. © Annett Brune

🚰 Dortmund At the 28th Conference for Works Councils, Staff Councils and Youth & Trainee Representatives in the water sector, delegates added their voices. Strong public water services require investment, staffing and social dialogue. © Joerg Sarbach

📍 At a ver.di training for works council members from public utilities, participants joined the #PublicServicesEmergency call. Strong public services start with strong workplace representation. Together, they are standing up for investment, decent jobs and quality public services. © ver.di

⚡ Energy workers: ◾Workers' representatives at Frankfurt's energy supplier Mainova ◾and colleagues at Badenova in Freiburg They both showed their support for the campaign. The green transition needs strong public utilities - and the workers who keep them running. © Tanja Hauch & Jonas Conklin

💧 Water workers At the 25th anniversary of Wasserwerke Westfalen, workers joined the #PublicServicesEmergency call. Clean water depends on skilled public service workers - and long-term public investment! © Wasserwerke Westfalen

📍 Bavaria ver.di's Bavarian leadership also joined the campaign. Because defending public services starts with defending the people who deliver them. © Gerhard Lehner

📍 23 June – UN Public Service Day ver.di brought together unionists and policymakers to discuss the future of Germany's public services. The challenges: ➡️ staff shortages ➡️ ageing workforce ➡️ underfunded municipalities ➡️ failing infrastructure Watch here: www.youtube.com/live/oofrXui...

📍 10 June - Hannover Healthcare workers took to the streets against the healthcare reform putting more pressure on health workers and patients. ver.di members protested in front of the Conference of Health Ministers taking place in Hannover.

Meeting with Sylvie Bühler, member of ver.di's Federal Executive Board. Together, we highlighted a shared message: without public services, there's no good jobs, no strong industrial policy, no social justice and no democracy itself. Europe needs strong public services - not austerity.

📍 Berlin – 1 May The campaign began on International Workers' Day. EPSU General Secretary Jan Willem Goudriaan joined @dgbbbr.bsky.social to launch our #PublicServicesEmergency call. Quality public services are at the heart of quality jobs. © DGB/Christian von Polentz

🇩🇪 The #PublicServicesEmergency call echoed across Germany. From Berlin to Dortmund, from hospitals to water utilities, @social.verdi.de members mobilised to demand higher pay, more staff, public investment. Follow the thread to see the actions across the country 🧵

#PublicServicesEmergency is real Von der Leyen's answers are wrong Corporate lobbyists get the deal Workers are fighting back strong EPSU argues that Europe's real emergencies are understaffed public services, climate crisis & inequality - not deregulation. Read here👇🏾 www.epsu.org/newsletter/v...

⚠️ #PublicServicesEmergency in childcare See the email sent by a municipality in Belgium. They say public nurseries are only able to respond to 3️⃣0️⃣% of the demand. Meanwhile childcare workers face low pay and staff shortages. This is why public service workers took a European action on 23 June!

From childcare to elderly support, care workers came together at the European Parliament. Problems across Europe are the same: ◾️ staff shortages ◾️ low wages ◾️ privatisation ◾️ violence EPSU General Secretary @jwgoudriaan.bsky.social: "This is an alarming #PublicServicesEmergency!"

Austerity sucks - and public service workers know it. @unison.org.uk's Clare Williams, @andreaegangs.bsky.social and Gloria Mills stand with EPSU’s #PublicServicesEmergency fight for investment, decent pay, more staff and strong collective bargaining!

🚨 No public money for tax dodgers. We met with MEP Pasquale Tridico, @fisc.europarl.europa.eu Chair, to discuss how revision of the EU Public Procurement Directive can become a tool against tax avoidance. Tax omnibus & 28th Regime will lead further tax dodging. See the proof in the thread👇🏾