15 June 2021 | Universal Quality Public Services - What is to be done? GI-ESCR participates in PSI brief launch

This 15 June, GI-ESCR’s Executive Director Magdalena Sepúlveda will be participating in the launch of Public Services International (PSI) ‘s brief on Universal Quality Public Services, by PSI and the New Economic Foundation. The report builds strong arguments for extended public services as the bedrock for the Covid-19 recovery.

COVID reminds us that we are all connected and that the great challenges of our time can only be met with collective action. The strength of our resilience to cope with crises and create a better world depends on having access to life’s essentials.

Public services and trade unions are two core pillars of the required collective response. But what is to be done? How do unionists reimagine public services and build the power needed to make them a reality?

15 June | 3pm CET | Interpretation in Spanish and French

Keynote Speaker

Anna Coote, New Economics Foundation, Author of UQPS: A Policy Brief for Trade Unions

Followed by a panel discussion with:

• Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

• Carolina Espinoza, Health Worker and Union leader, Chile

• Joseph Ajaero, General Secretary, Nigeria Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) and Deputy President, Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC)

• Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona, Executive Director of the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and former UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights

Join Public Services International (PSI) to discuss these questions at the launch of their latest publication, Universal Quality Public Services, a union policy briefing that offers a vision and road map for UQPS, produced thanks to PSI as well as GI-ESCR’s partner The Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.