Public service workers took to the streets in Brussels to reject their sectors' staff shortages, reduced budgets, and increased workloads. The union federations in the public services ACV/CSC, CGSP/ACOD and SLPF/VSOA organised a week of action from 6 to 10 March to highlight the staffing and funding crisis facing all parts of the sector. The federations coordinated a series of actions with calls to strengthen public services with more public investment and funding and end the push for privatisation. They also want to see improvements to pay and conditions to make public services more attractive to work in and especially to stop the attacks on public service pensions. Finally, the federations want to see more and better social dialogue across all levels and sectors in the public services.
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