By Rosa Pavanelli, General Secretary of Public Services International This week in Glasgow, Scotland, over 8000 woman walked off the job to protest the City Council’s continued failure to settle a decade-long Equal Pay dispute. These women are nursery workers. They are home carers. They are cleaners and caterers and…

In the last few years, public employees have been identified by Erdoğan as the cornerstones of a solidarity coalition which emerged between the “left” and the Kurds… and they are unjustly losing their jobs for that reason — by Marcelo Netto It has been just a week since the failed military coup against Recep Tayyip Erdoğan took place and the president of Turkey has already managed to detain, suspend or put under investigation around 60,000 civil servants, teachers, judges, police and soldiers.

Impact of Syrian Refugee Crisis on Access to Health Services — by Irfan Kaygısız /photos: Erhan Arık and Vedat Arık for Public Services International (PSI)* Introduction The violent intervention of Syrian security forces against the anti-government protests which had started in the city of Deraa on 15 March 2011 led to clashes which rapidly engulfed the whole country. As a result, some…