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Social protection floors

30 March 2014

Today, as much as 80 per cent of the global population does not have access to social protection and lives in social insecurity, facing complete loss of income when a personal or national economic crisis strikes. Social Protection was pushed to the fore of the international agenda after the obvious damage due to the financial and economic crises, and a 2012 ILO Recommendation operationalizes Social Protection Floors as two-pronged, providing universal access to essential health care and basic income security in the case of maternity, for children and when people are sick, unemployed, disabled, and old. Read more>>>

Be a man!

07 March 2014

What's the quickest way to get a pay rise? Easy - become a man.

Svenska Transportarbetareförbundet (SV Transport)

Sweden
Region: 
Europe (EU)
Sub-region: 
EU: Nordic

Akademikerförbundet SSR (SSR)

Sweden
Region: 
Europe (EU)
Sub-region: 
EU: Nordic

VISION (VISION)

Sweden
E-mail: 
vision@vision.se
Website: 
http://www.sktf.se/
Region: 
Europe (EU)
Sub-region: 
EU: Nordic

Swedish Municipal Workers Union (Kommunal)

Sweden
Region: 
Europe (EU)
Sub-region: 
EU: Nordic

Fackförbundet ST (ST)

Sweden
E-mail: 
st@st.org
Website: 
http://www.st.org/
Region: 
Europe (EU)
Sub-region: 
EU: Nordic

The Union of Service and Communication Employees (SEKO)

Sweden
E-mail: 
seko@seko.se
Website: 
http://www.seko.se/
Region: 
Europe (EU)
Sub-region: 
EU: Nordic

Nurses' Forum

20 January 2014

Education support and cultural workers

15 January 2014

Public Services International affiliates represent hundreds of thousands of educational support workers throughout the world, many of who work without job security, fair compensation and benefits, or recognition that their services are vital to ensuring high quality public education for all citizens. The jobs of support workers are on the frontlines of the privatization and casualization struggle within the education sector, and many of these workers face challenges in pursuing their basic freedom to form a union and collectively bargain their terms and conditions of service. More information