🌍✊ 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

"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.

🌍 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

🌍✊ 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

🌍 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

🌍 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

"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... ✊

"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

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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🌍 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

🌍 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

🌍 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

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. 🚩🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊

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. 🚩🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊

🌍 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

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'.

WORKERS SUCCESSFULLY DEFEND GENDER EQUALITY AT THE INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONFERENCE!

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. 👩‍⚕️🕊️ 🌍 ✊

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."

"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... 🇦🇷✊

Opening day at the 114th International Labour Conference in Geneva. Hitomi Kimura — VP of JICHIRO (Japan's public service workers' federation) and Chair of PSI's World Women's Committee — addressed the @ilo.org General Discussion on gender equality at work. 🇯🇵✊

📢JUST LAUNCHED 🗣️“The #RightsIndex26 shows that the crisis for workers’ rights is no longer confined to the margins - it is now at the heart of democracies. Governments are failing to protect working people & in many cases are actively undermining them.” @luctriangle.bsky.social 👉 buff.ly/ykzBtQw

Today marks the beginning of #ILC2026! The 114th International Labour Conference, in Geneva where PSI unions will be standing up for public service workers all across the world at the UN's International Labour Organization 🚩✊🌍

Congrats to @pcsunion.bsky.social in the UK for their massive victory in their fight for a rational policy on remote work! . @psac-afpc.bsky.social @pipsc-ipfpc.bsky.social @psiglobalunion.bsky.social

Public service workers facing extreme heat have won the world's first global health and safety protections. PSI helped shape new ILO guidelines, winning inclusion of public investment and safer staffing for those most exposed at work. 🌍✊ #OSH #extremeheat € psishort.link/osh_heat_gui...

PSI wins promotion of public investment, safer staffing for public service workers facing extreme weather OSH risks in new ILO guidelines

Public Services International (PSI), the global union federation for public service workers, has helped shape the world’s first set of international guidelines on extreme heat and extreme weather occu...

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NEWS: ICJ affirms ILO #right2strike in BIG WIN for workers+unions.✊🔴 🚩 'It provides international support for unions everywhere to #fightback when rights are attacked. It shows workers will stand up and be heard –– we have international law on our side.' –– PSI General Secretary Daniel Bertossa

Victory for workers: World's Top Court Affirms ILO Right to Strike

In a victory for workers, unions and public services, the International Court of Justice has upheld the long-established interpretation that the right to strike is part of the International Labour Org...

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The @etuc-ces.bsky.social executive adopted #solidarity statement with the Slovenian confederations @epsu.bsky.social supports the public service and other unions in their opposition against the austerity and farright government policies at detriment of workers, people @psiglobalunion.bsky.social

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Slovenian trade union confederations collected nearly 50.000 signatures in several days asking for a legislative referendum to cancel an omnibus law worsening pay, conditions, pensions, health care and weaken the unions First policy of a new right/farright government #solidarity @epsu.bsky.social

Today the Intl Court of Justice gives its view on whether ILO Convention 87 provides for a right to strike as part of the wider Freedom of Association and the Right to Organise. We asked public sector workers from across the world why the #right2strike is so important. ✊ 🧑‍⚕️ 📚 💪

🟣 No one should fear being themselves—Much less at work. Ahead of #IDAHOBIT, European Trade Union Federations stand united against homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia. 🏳️‍🌈 1 in 5 LGBTIQ workers face discrimination. 🏳️‍⚧️ For trans & intersex people, it’s even 1 in 3. 🛑 This must end!

LGBTIQ discrimination strongest felt at work

Joint statement from European Trade Union Federations International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia – 17 May 2025 No one should have to live in fear of being themselves. Yet, for …

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🌈 Nearly 1 in 5 LGBTIQ workers in Europe face discrimination at work. For trans & intersex workers, it’s 1 in 3. Ahead of #IDAHOBIT, Europe’s unions say: enough. Every worker deserves dignity, safety & equality. Read the joint ETUFs statement 👉 www.epsu.org/article/trad...

Cross-border solidarity is building union power. ✊🌍

Interview: How Nurses' Cross-border Solidarity is Building Power

PSI Nursing and Care Officer Huma Haq caught up with Maren Olene Kloster from the Norweigian Nurses Organisation to hear about how sharing of organising know-how is building union power across the wor...

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