Great piece of research by union-funded @cictar.bsky.social exposing how Epstein-elite linked Palantir’s global tax structure drains funding for public services and infrastructure throughout Europe 1/3 static1.squarespace.com/static/636a4...
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The European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU), organising 8 million public service workers across Europe. Follow us to stay connected with their fight - and wins! General Secretary: @jwgoudriaan.bsky.social
💫Thank you for amplifying, @corporateeurope.org! With #Palantir in the news today for its “otherworldly” booming stock prices, it’s time for Europe to ask itself just how the company can build such staggering profits from public contracts - while paying back so little.
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)@corporateeurope.org · 12h agoWe were kindly asked by Gaia Neiman at @euobserver.com to comment on this important study. Palantir provides some of the most repressive AI tools implicated in human rights violations and genocide, and its numerous state contracts have locked in dependency. euobserver.com/231360/palan...
"European public authorities should be able to exclude companies that take public money while shifting profits away from the national tax base that funds public services, and provide the basis for national security that #Palantir claims to defend."
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)@corporateeurope.org · 12h ago🚨Report by @cictar.bsky.social on how Big Tech company Palantir is managing to pay little to no taxes in EU. It shows how Palantir’s global tax structure drains funding for public services&infrastructure ✊ @epsu.bsky.social demands tougher rules on public contracts 👉 www.cictar.org/all-research...
The Guardian has picked up on our new research with @cictar.bsky.social and @unison.org.uk: Palantir paid just £2.1m UK tax in 2024 on £247m revenue and major public contracts. Public money should fund public services - not tax avoiders and profit! Read: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts
Software group benefits from global systems and accounting practices ‘that enable tax to be shirked’, says union boss
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🚨Report by @cictar.bsky.social on how Big Tech company Palantir is managing to pay little to no taxes in EU. It shows how Palantir’s global tax structure drains funding for public services&infrastructure ✊ @epsu.bsky.social demands tougher rules on public contracts 👉 www.cictar.org/all-research...
Who Pays for the Surveillance State? — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
Who pays for the surveillance state?
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Public money should fund public services—not reward aggressive tax avoidance. A new report reveals how Palantir benefits from public contracts across Europe while paying almost no corporate tax through complex corporate structures. Meanwhile, workers and citizens are left to shoulder the cost 👇👇
EPSU@epsu.bsky.social · 15h ago🤑 We pay. You pay. Palantir doesn’t. A new report finds that #Palantir is paying little to no corporate tax in Europe while expanding its influence over public services, policing, defence and national security. 💲 Public money in. Almost no tax out. Read the report: www.epsu.org/article/pala...
Really important report on one of the most dangerous corporations out there. With a founder saying that democracy and freedom are incompatible, a manifesto that could be the "rambling of a super villain" (www.theguardian.com/technology/2...) and an obvious disregard for human rights.
EPSU@epsu.bsky.social · 15h ago🤑 We pay. You pay. Palantir doesn’t. A new report finds that #Palantir is paying little to no corporate tax in Europe while expanding its influence over public services, policing, defence and national security. 💲 Public money in. Almost no tax out. Read the report: www.epsu.org/article/pala...
🤑 We pay. You pay. Palantir doesn’t. A new report finds that #Palantir is paying little to no corporate tax in Europe while expanding its influence over public services, policing, defence and national security. 💲 Public money in. Almost no tax out. Read the report: www.epsu.org/article/pala...
Palantir pays almost no corporate tax in Europe while benefitting from public contracts: new report
A new report reveals that Palantir is paying little to no corporate taxes in Europe while building massive profits and share value off the back of public contracts.
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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...
@kesk.org.tr demands 35% increase in wages. To ensure decent wage, we need to struggle together. Let's come together to say no to those who imposes poverty on us. Poverty is not inevitable. @ituc.bsky.social @etuc-ces.bsky.social @epsu.bsky.social @psiglobalunion.bsky.social @cgt.fr @cfdt.fr #EkZam
More gets known about US Big Tech surveillance and spy company Palantir Tomorrow ñ launch of report with @cictar.bsky.social on an essential part of its business model You can argue: robbing public services Stay tuned @epsu.bsky.social @politico.eu @apache.be @dewereldmorgen.bsky.social
Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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📸 @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! ✊
Thread on the complaint of Spanish government following the over-the-top, ill-informed, self-serving reaction of rightwing and farright politicians and governments following the sudden influx of people without papers in Ceuta And exposing what a non-sense exclusion of Schengen is @epsu.bsky.social
Jorge Liboreiro@jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 5d agoPedro Sánchez has sent a letter to the EU institutions complaining about the political reaction of some member states to the migratory crisis in Ceuta. “In the current international context, the European Union cannot afford this kind of selfish, polarising and unlawful reaction.” 🧵
Workers died in forest fires Turkiÿe Firefighters have not sufficient protection and resources says leader @epsu.bsky.social affiliated @tumbelsen.bsky.social #solidarity to all comrades Different countries, same struggle Story via @labournetgermany.bsky.social @fbunational.bsky.social
Türkei: Versäumte Sicherheitsmaßnahmen, Arbeiter, die in den Tod geschickt werden … So verwandeln sich Wälder in Asche » LabourNet Germany
"... Vor dem Waldbrand in Eskişehir, bei dem fünf Waldarbeiter und fünf AKUT-Freiwillige ums Leben kamen, hatten Waldarbeiter gegenüber unserer Zeitung erklärt, dass ihr Stundenlohn 53 Lira betrage. M...
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Right and extreme right in France block publication of a report on stress at work Prepared by experts it was likely to conclude psychologial stress has increased and recommendations on the kinda measures employers should take to ensure well being of employees @epsu.bsky.social
Laurence MALHERBE@malherbel.bsky.social · 4d agoCe sont tous les salariés et les agents publics qui ne décolèrent pas 🤬. Toutes celles et ceux qui subissent l’intensification du travail, la dégradation de ses conditions d’exercice, celles et ceux dont la santé mentale au travail vacille. C’est un affront fait au monde du travail 😖
Turkish health & social services union @sesgenelmerkezi.bsky.social celebrates 30y of struggle for workers, peace and democracy Happy birthday Union activists/ leadership faced attacks and repression during those years #solidarity #strongertogether @epsu.bsky.social @psiglobalunion.bsky.social
And with the EU's return hubs and Return Regulation a big risk such camps come about in Europe as well [see below on US] @epsu.bsky.social joined others condemning that EU regulation and what it could lead to
EPSU condemns centre-right/far right vote on Return Regulation
The European Parliament has voted to approve the Return Regulation, despite serious concerns raised by trade unions, civil society organisations and human rights defenders.
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Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 6d ago"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
As forest fires and particles in the air endanger public health across borders one more reason to increase spending for health in EU budget and long term budget [MFF] Statement @epsu.bsky.social and others @euobserver.com @politico.eu @dewereldmorgen.bsky.social @epha-eu.bsky.social
EPSU@epsu.bsky.social · 6d ago🚨 No cuts in health! Tomorrow, EU countries will discuss the #EU4Health Work Programme for 2026. Europe's health systems are under enormous pressure. Ahead of tomorrow's meeting, EPSU, CPME and EFN reiterate their call on member states to reject cuts to EU4Health👇🏾 www.epsu.org/article/doct...
🚨 No cuts in health! Tomorrow, EU countries will discuss the #EU4Health Work Programme for 2026. Europe's health systems are under enormous pressure. Ahead of tomorrow's meeting, EPSU, CPME and EFN reiterate their call on member states to reject cuts to EU4Health👇🏾 www.epsu.org/article/doct...
Doctors, nurses, health and care workers warn EU: don’t scrap EU4Health
Doctors, nurses, health and care workers are warning EU leaders against its plans to scrap the standalone the EU4Health programme.
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The deliberate attacks on health workers (ambulance drivers, paramedics, nurses, doctors, others; many of them union members) in Palestine, Lebanon, Ukraine, elsewhere are a violation of Geneva Conventions, @who.int @ilo.org rules Alas, very few are held to account for war crimes @epsu.bsky.social
‘They targeted us directly’: how the Israel-Lebanon war became deadly for healthcare workers
At least 135 medics in Lebanon have been killed by Israel’s bombardment since March
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Dutch librarians have new collective agreement ▫️pay rise ▫️5th may Liberation Day [WWII] a free day ▫️measures to address work related stress ▫️leave to care for family/others And remarkable: a month of the union @afscme.bsky.social @aaslala.bsky.social @epsu.bsky.social
Nieuwe cao Openbare Bibliotheken definitief
De nieuwe cao Openbare Bibliotheken is definitief. Een ruime meerderheid van de FNV-leden stemde vóór het onderhandelingsresultaat. Ook de meerderheid van de CNV-leden stemde in. Daarmee zijn de afspr...
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Further reminder of the disaster climate change is wracking upon us by another scientist as politicians retreat from earlier pledges and action Most notably the @ec.europa.eu which is captured by corporate Europe and focuses on deregulation putting their profits before our planet @epsu.bsky.social
Wildfires are raging – and the world has junked 45 climate pledges. Disaster looms, and little wonder | Bill McGuire
Five years ago, I wrote an open letter asking climate scientists to speak out. Now governments are in retreat, it is surely time to act, says climate professor Bill McGuire
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Workers and members of #LGBTIQ+ community continue to face discrimination, aggression and brutal violence, important EU Commissioner @hadjalahbib.bsky.social comes out against so-called conversion therapies Full support @epsu.bsky.social @lgbtiq-intergroup.bsky.social @unisonlgbtplus.bsky.social
Europe’s queer ‘conversion’ therapy crisis is an invisible trauma for victims, but a difficult practice to ban
The EU Commission stands by its vow that "there is nothing to 'cure' in LGBTIQ+ people,” yet so-called 'conversion' practices still continue unregulated in 18 member states despite recent campaigning....
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🚨🗨️“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...
Health workers on #strike in Romania On behalf of 8 million members @epsu.bsky.social expresses #solidarity Ensuring social dialogue, collective bargaining and improving pay and conditions should be priority No to austerity and deregulation @labourstart.bsky.social @roxanaminzatu.bsky.social
EPSU@epsu.bsky.social · last wk.👩🏾⚕️ 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!
🚑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!
And not only in France and Spain, also in Scotland fires rage First responders on the frontline Again praise Alas we see acrosss Europe how resources for public services are cut or diverted creating emergencies and undermining preparedness and protection @epsu.bsky.social
Swinney requests UK military aid as 500 firefighters tackle Cairngorms wildfire
Scottish first minister hopes aerial support will help quench 10-day fire that has forced evacuation of Highlands village
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Horrible attack on Pride parade on Christopher Street Day in Berlin Thought for families, friends, co-workers #solidarity with all in the #LGBTQIA+ community So much work to be done for tolerance Thanks to emergency workers and first responders @epsu.bsky.social @psiglobalunion.bsky.social
Berlin Pride attack prompts grief and solidarity with LGBTQ community
Berlin has long occupied a central place in the history of gay rights and culture.
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