Public Services International

PSI

Full name	Public Services International
Founded	1907
Members	20 million in 160 countries (2006)
Country	International
Affiliation	Global union federation
Key people	David Prentis, president Peter Waldorff, secretary general
Office location	Ferney-Voltaire, France
Website	www.world-psi.org

Public Services International (PSI) is a global union federation of public sector trade unions. It has 620 affiliated unions, in 160 countries, representing 20 million workers. PSI is an officially recognized non-government organization for the public sector within the International Labour Organisation, and has consultative status with the United Nations' ECOSOC and observer status with other UN bodies such as the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and UNESCO.

As part of the Quality Public Services campaign, PSI is developing proposals for a General Agreement on Public Services, intended as a balance to the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), which is viewed as endangering public services. PSI campaigns to ensure public services:

• are adequately resourced, with well trained workers delivering quality services;
• meet social objectives such as the eradication of poverty and the empowerment of people;
• are ethical and corruption-free, and enable societies and economies to operate effectively and equitably;
• provide full rights and decent working conditions for workers.

External links

• Public Services International Research Unit
• Peter Waldorff’s blog