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Jan Willem Goudriaan
@jwgoudriaan.bsky.social
General Secretary EPSU - European Public Service Union
www.epsu.org
ETUC - PSI
People and Planet Before Profits
Twitter/X @JW_Goudriaan
Romanian unions mobilised against austerity policies, wage freezes and attacks on workers' rights 29 October

Estimated 30-35.000 joined the Bucharest demo

The workers and their unions have our #solidarity

@epsu.bsky.social
@strikemap.org
@labourstart.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
New leadership team @fagforbundet.bsky.social

Congrats to all from @epsu.bsky.social

Congrats to new President Helene Harsvik Skeibrok.

We look forward to confront the challenges for public service workers together

Thanks to Mette Nord former president of EPSU. A well deserved retirement
October 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
At the Congress of Norwegian union @fagforbundet.bsky.social and we join protest of @lonorge.bsky.social demanding the end of occupation of #Gaza and boycot

Workers' movement is a movement fighting for freedom and democracy with #solidarity

@epsu.bsky.social
@etuc-ces.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Portuguese public service unions #strike 24 october

For higher wages and in defense of the public services as government wants to externalise job

#solidarity to Frente Comun/ STAL

@epsu.bsky.social
@cssdacgtp-in.bsky.social
@strikemap.org
@labourstart.bsky.social

www.stal.pt/index.php/ar...
October 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Was pleased to speak to delegates of the Moldovan health care workers union's 8th Congress. Igor Zubca has been re-elected. Igor is also president of Pan European Council of @ituc.bsky.social

Issues Moldovan health workers are confronted with very similar as rest of Europe

Like: staffing ....
October 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Italian union CGIL announces mobilisation for 25 October

Democracy at work - for higher wages, for investment in education, health, for fiscal reform, for peace and against re-armament

part of @ituc.bsky.social work and in line with UN disarmament initiatives

@epsu.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Saterday 18th
➡️ NoKings protests in the US

Many unionists will join as he goes after jobs, health insurance and decent working conditions

Bad President for working people

Success to all
October 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
National demo @vakbondabvv.bsky.social @hetacv.bsky.social @aclvb.bsky.social @greenpeace.eu @eapneurope.bsky.social in Belgium against austerity and for social justice brings > 100.000 to streets of Brussels

Angry crowds as government goes after wages and pensions, leaving wealty alone
October 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The Belgian national day of action against austerity and for social justice with #strike and national demo, gets #solidarity from German union @social.verdi.de

Different countries. Same struggle

Success to
@vakbondabvv.bsky.social
@hetacv.bsky.social
@aclvb.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 5:21 AM
the death penalty and assassinations sponsored by authoritarian regimes are used as a political tool against political opponents, independent journalists, and human rights defenders."

These political opponents, journalists, human rights defenders can be trade unionists.

@epsu.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Strong statement of former EU Commissioner Schmit

Labour is not a commodity
We do not need Bullshit jobs

European unions discuss the need for Quality Jobs with @etuc-ces.bsky.social

@epsu.bsky.social
@davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
We joined @oegb.bsky.social and @etuc-ces.bsky.social comrades from across Europe in Vienna on occassion of World Day for Decent Work

We demand an agenda for social justice for Europe's workers from @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu

Not the deregulation that breaks down Social Europe

@epsu.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The philosopher Hannah Arendt on lies as a means to subdue us

It is chilling to experience this in full practice and day light
September 26, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Reaction of MAGA crowd over UN escalator and teleprompter

And what really happened

Trump staffers responsible...
September 24, 2025 at 6:03 AM
With comrades of the Mediterranean group of public service unions in @epsu.bsky.social discussing
- public service agenda for Europe
- impact of the extreme-right, austerity and defense spending on public budgets
- wages that lag behind inflation and staffing shortages
- Gaza and need for EU to act
September 23, 2025 at 11:39 AM
And the march #Backtothefuture continues, here near Gellik, Netherlands

Calling out the deregulation agenda of the @ec.europa.eu

Gathering with others from across EU in Brussels 23rd

@epsu.bsky.social
@foeeurope.bsky.social
@eccjorg.bsky.social
@etuc-ces.bsky.social
@corporateeurope.org
September 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
President @etuc-ces.bsky.social and @oegb.bsky.social speaking at end mandate @eesc-president.bsky.social

Recalling Stand up for Europe, Speak up for Democracy, the importance of social justice, social dialogue and social rights and stressing collective bargaining

@epsu.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Opinion poll in France on concerns of people are the problems in hospitals and schools. Low salaries [no compensatiin for inflation] and fiscal fraude [of the rich and corporations

As Wilders showed in Netherlands extreme right does zero to solve any of those problems
September 16, 2025 at 6:20 AM
This is about and part of creating the political climate to make this normal [Trump a dictator, locking up political opponents]

And pave the way for Trump to run for a third term. OH, did he not say the nov 2024 election was the last one?
September 15, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Now i thought that as well, the comparison... Indeed how it would be abused for fascist power grab

The author probably does not know that the sentence of Van der Lubbe was cancelled posthumously

And that the fire chief of Berlin at the time thought the nazis set fire. He was arrested and strangled
September 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Unions in Greek-Cyprus announce strike action across the economy - unions PEO SEK DEOK Pasydy and many others join

Higher wages to compensate for inflation and in line with the agreement with employers and government

#solidarity 👊

@epsu.bsky.social
@labourstart.bsky.social
@strikemap.org
September 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Our #solidarity @epsu.bsky.social with journalists, rescue and health workers who are targets of the Israeli army for doing their work - reporting, assisting, caring. Our thoughts with family friends and co-workers of those killed in #Gaza

@efjeurope.bsky.social
@ifjglobal.bsky.social
August 26, 2025 at 9:55 AM
And for an article in the FT on the situation
30/7/2025
July 30, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Artist @estherkokmeijer.bsky.social shows that we have international law - in this project on humanity and nature [ on space, on world seas, antartica]

And international court of justice

Part of exhibition in new art museum Fenix Rotterdam
July 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The Palestinian group 47Souls received a warm welcome at Sfinx festival Boechout Belgium

Crowd chanted Free Palestine

People united in their disgust for EU inaction. @ec.europa.eu @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu are losing young people because of their hypocrisy
July 24, 2025 at 10:31 PM