On March 26–27, the EPSU (European Federation of Public Service Unions) North-Eastern Region Representatives Meeting will take place at the Holiday Inn Conference Center in Vilnius.
The event will bring together public sector workers’ representatives from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Ukraine, Georgia, and Armenia.
DRAFT PROGRAMME:
| 25 March – Tuesday | |
| Arrival | |
| 19.00 – 20.00 | Dinner |
| 26 March – Wednesday | |
| 08.30 – 09.00 | Registration of participants. |
| 09.00 – 09.15 | Welcome by Dalia Jakutavičė, for the Lithuanian affiliates (President of LPPSF, Industrial workers, Lithuania)
Introduction and welcome by EPSU General Secretary Jan Willem Goudriaan and Yurii PIZHUK, State Employees’ Union of Ukraine, chairman of the NEE constituency meeting |
| 09.15 – 10.30
| Update on the Recruitment and Organising (R&O) Activities, questions/ discussion with Agnieszka GHINARARU, and Artem Tidva (EPSU R&O team) Online speakers from affiliates |
| 11.00 -12.00 | Keynote Inga Ruginienė – Lithuanian Minister of Social Affairs With a coffee break of 30 minutes around 10.30 |
| 12.00 – 13.30 | Lunch break – Group picture and if required solidarity pictures for unions in actions/strikes (at the moment of writing the Georgian civil service unions are under pressure for example) |
| 13.30 – 14.00
14.00 – 15:00 | Update on recent developments, priorities Jan Willem Goudriaan, EPSU General Secretary Challenges for the labour movement Audrius Gelžinis, President of the Lithuanian Trade Union Confederation |
| 15.00 – 15.30 | Coffee break |
| 15.30 – 16.15 | Continuation – Update on recent developments EPSU Finance Jan Willem Goudriaan |
| 16.15 – 16.45 | Youth work Representative of the Youth Network Representative of the WGEC |
| 16.45 – 17.30 | Short 5 minutes reports from affiliates (As we are many unions, please stick to the 5 minutes and concentrate on challenges to collective bargaining and trade union rights
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| 17.30 | End of the first day of the meeting |
| 19.00 | Dinner
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| 27 March – Thursday | |
| 09.00 – 10.00 | Challenge of Digitalisation for public services and public service workers. Andžėj Trachimovič, Deputy Minister of the Economy and Innovation
Follow up on reports. Discussions |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.00 – 12.30 | EPSU executive April, and other forthcoming events (Standing Committees, networks…) Public Service Day 23 June 2025 (celebrate, resist, campaign and action) |
| 12.30 – 13.00 | Conclusions. Place of the next Constituency meeting. Closure of the meeting |
| 13.00 | Lunch |
| Departures | |