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Migration and Refugees

In many countries, skilled health and social care workers feel they must leave their families behind and work abroad to earn a decent income. They brave exploitation and discrimination. And their departure weakens health and social services in their home community. PSI works with unions worldwide to protect migrant workers and to improve the quality of health and social services. Read more

Public Service Trade Union Action Planning Meeting on Social Protection for Migrant Workers

25 November 2013

Public Services International (PSI), in collaboration with the International Labour Organization Decent Work Across Borders Project (ILO DWAB): a Pilot Project for Migrant Health Professionals and Skilled Workers, funded by the European Union, is organising a “Public Service Trade Union Action Planning Meeting on Social Protection for Migrant Workers,” 28-30 November 2013, Berlin, Germany.

Report: PSI at the ILO Tripartite Technical Meeting on Labour Migration

25 November 2013

Public Services International representatives joined the Workers’ Group during the Tripartite Technical Meeting on Labour Migration organised by the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva on 4-8 November.

Public services and decent work for all

07 October 2013
ITUC Poster for WDDW

On 7 October we celebrate the World Day for Decent Work. Public Services International (PSI) joins the international trade union movement in demanding decent work for all and an end to the continuous attacks on trade union rights around the world. We want jobs that provide decent salaries and social security with safe working conditions.

Support our Action! Sign the Letter!

05 October 2013
Global Unions

Open Letter to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon concerning Trade Union and Civil Society Inclusion at the High-level Dialogue on Migration and Development New York, October 3-4, 2013

Tragedy of Lampedusa underscores PSI migration demands

04 October 2013
Refugees on a boad

Public Services International delegates at United Nations High Level Dialogue meetings in New York are marking the “Day of Mourning” for the African migrants who’ve drowned or are still missing, after a boat capsized off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa on 03 October 2013. A day of national mourning is being observed across Italy today (04 October).

At least 114 men, women and children have died and at least 200 more are still unaccounted for following this accident. None were wearing lifejackets. Migrants who arrive on the Italian island of Lampedusa, which is just 11 kilometres from Tunisia, are processed in centres, screened for asylum and often sent back home.

People, power, communities

03 October 2013
PSI Migration Activists marched with hundreds of trade unions and civil society activists across New York’s Brooklyn Bridge

People, Power, Communities: PSI migration activists marched with hundreds of trade unions and civil society activists across New York’s Brooklyn Bridge, forging solidarity between labour and communities in defence of migrants’ rights.

PGA 2013 kicks off in New York

01 October 2013
2013 People’s Global Action on Migration, Development & Human Rights

Hundreds of migrants rights advocates, trade unionists and activists gathered on 30 September for the opening program of the 2013 People’s Global Action on Migration, Development & Human Rights (PGA) at the Church Center of the United Nations (UN), 777 UN Plaza (E. 44th St. and 1st Avenue), New York City.