Celebrating the of Global Day of Action for Care, we welcome Emma Dowling (University of Austria) and Tuscany Bell (EPSU). The pandemic laid bare a crisis that’s been bubbling for decades: the care crisis. In this episode, we discuss Emma’s book ‘The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It?’.

Marking International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Paola Panzeri (EPSU) highlights just why workplace violence cannot be ignored and how unions can mobilise to support women.

Before the current conflict kicked off, journalist Tom Rawley, openDemocracy, discovered something shocking: the British Foreign Office used consultants and development aid to push for neo-liberal market reforms in Ukraine and undermine labour rights. In this episode of the EPSU podcast, he discusses the United Kingdom’s push to gaslight the Ukrainian working class.

Dr Vera Weghmann (PSIRU, University of Greenwich) joins the EPSU podcast again to pose another important question: can the current waste management system be changed through public ownership? Vera will be discussing the right to public utilities at EPSU’s Pan-European Conference on Public Utilities on Tuesday, 10 May 2022. Find out how to join in here ➡ https://bit.ly/3EZ2Oqs

We often think we know what an occupational disease is – cancer, asbestos… but what about COVID? Andrea Oates, freelance health and safety journalist, tells the EPSU podcast know just why COVID-19 is an occupational disease, and why it’s important for unions and policymakers to recognise this. Andrea Oates is the author of an EPSU report which makes the case for COVID to be recognised as an occupational disease. Read the full report here ➡ https://bit.ly/2XQaUQV

Ahead of the Right to Energy Forum 2022, we sit down with Dr Vera Weghmann (PSIRU, University of Greenwich) to discuss a bold and uncomfortable truth: the failure of energy liberalisation. Register for the Right to Energy Forum 2022 here ➡ https://bit.ly/3nLHjlf Read EPSU's report on the failure of energy liberalisation here ➡ https://bit.ly/3KvOCri

Ready to learn even more about EPSU? Penny Clarke, Deputy General Secretary, EPSU looks back the last ten years in the role, from TTIP to TRIPS and beyond.

Energy's the word on everyone’s minds. With policymakers coming together for COP26 in Glasgow to discuss just how we can stall climate change, we sat down with Sean Sweeney, Director of International Program on Labor, Climate & Environment at the School of Labor and Urban Studies, CUNY; and Coordinator, Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (TUED). Find out more about energy democracy and how democratic control and social ownership of energy can provide a solution to the climate crisis in the latest episode of #EPSUpodcast.

In our fourth episode, we sit down with Leigh Phillips (author, Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-Porn Addicts: A Defence of Growth, Progress, Industry and Stuff; The People's Republic of Wal-Mart) to discuss how the rise of privatisation has impacted how countries function.

In our third episode we sit down with Andreas Bieler, Professor of Political Economy in the School of Politics and International Relations and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ) at the University of Nottingham. He's also the author of a great book - Fighting for Water: Resisting Privatization in Europe. Listen in to learn more about the history of public service privatisation - and how it can be stopped.

This week, we discover just what EPSU stands for. EPSU General Secretary, Jan Willem Goudriaan, joins the podcast to discuss public services, privatisation, and just how the pandemic has changed the way we look at work.

The world is changing, the economy is changing, and work culture is changing – but are unions keeping up? These changes have drawn young people to the service and care based gig economy; a world of zero-hour contracts and absent bosses and a blind spot for traditional labour unions. In the first #EPSUpodcast, Eve Livingston (author, Make Bosses Pay: Why We Need Unions) reimagines an inclusive labour movement that bridges the gap between trade unions and the new generation of precarious workers.