Today transport workers across Europe start their #FairTransport mobilisation. From 22 to 29 March workers across Europe will carry out a global action, organising pickets, events and rallies to demand decent work in their sector. EFFAT fully backs the European...
On International Women’s Day on 8th March, EFFAT and the entire European trade union movement are calling for women to be the agents of change. With their election programme “A fairer Europe for workers”, ETUC trade unions push for a Europe: Where the European Pillar...
The EU is committed to policies intended to make Europe a highly competitive, dynamic, knowledge-based economy within a framework of progressive social rights. However, this ambition does not match what trade unions are seeing on the ground. This study shows that...
European Trade union movement puts forward EU elections Manifesto In the run up of the European elections that are meant to determine the future direction of Europe, the European trade union movement publishes today its manifesto, urging its members to go to the...
The upcoming REBALANCE Conference eill take place in Berlin on Thursday 28 February and Friday, 1 March 2019. Please find attached: * The final programme * The list of participants * A location map showing how to get to the restaurant/hotel/venue * The draft...
EFFAT supports today’s general strike organised by the Belgian trade unions FGTB, CSC and CGSLB. The Belgian Interprofessional Agreement for 2019-2020 is currently being negotiated. Although the economy is growing as well as shareholders’ dividends and companies’...
EFFAT is the European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions, also representing domestic workers. As a European Trade Union Federation representing 120 national trade unions from 35 European countries, EFFAT defends the interests of more than 22 million workers towards the European Institutions, European employers’associations and transnational companies. EFFAT is a member of the ETUC and the European regional organisation of the IUF.
