Time is running out: Concrete and rapid actions needed to enforce rights to worker involvement in anticipating and managing the COVID-19 crisis impact
Three months after the COVID-19 health...
Collective bargaining
COVID-19 Emergency | EFFAT launches new page highlighting impact on EFFAT sectors & affiliates’ updates
The COVID-19 outbreak is having a seismic impact on the world and the way people live together with inevitable consequences on the working conditions of all workers.
Representing 25 million...
#COVID-19 – A social emergency for millions of precarious workers in Europe
The Coronavirus is changing the world and the way people live together. Measures to contain and combat the COVID-19 pandemic have inevitable consequences on the working conditions of...
EFFAT ExCom stands with workers at JDE coffee processing plant, UK
UPDATE 13/03/2020
Following talks with Unite the Union, JDE management at the Banbury (UK) coffee processing plant have agreed to withdraw their ‘sack and reemploy’ ultimatum to workers...
EFFAT sends solidarity message to NGG in advance of fast food worker pay arbitration
EFFAT today extends its support and solidarity to German affiliate NGG as fast food workers’ longstanding struggle for fair pay in the sector is set to go to arbitration next...
EWC Coca-Cola European Partners agreement signed after tough and long negotiations
After 3 years negotiations, EFFAT and the Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) signed a long awaited agreement establishing a European Works Council.
Operating in 12 European countries and employing 23000 workers...
EU Minimum Wage initiative: First stage Consultation document lacks ambition
The first stage consultation document issued yesterday by the Commission aims at collecting Social Partners reaction on a possible Union action addressing the challenges related to fair minimum wages.
Reacting...
The European Green Deal is certainly ambitious, but question marks still remain
EFFAT welcomes the ambitious targets set in the European Commission Communication on the European Green Deal and regrets that EU leaders failed to find unanimity...
Social partners call for a level playing field in the hospitality sector
Brussels, 29 November 2019: HOTREC, the European umbrella association of Hotels, Restaurants and Cafés, and its trade union counter-part EFFAT, the European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions,...
Domestic workers: time for a fair collective agreement for 140.000 in Belgium
Since June 2019, trade unions and employers in Belgium have been negotiating to conclude a fair collective agreement on wages and working conditions for domestic workers employed via service vouchers.
...
EFFAT Congress stands with fast food workers all over the globe demanding decent pay and working conditions
Zagreb, Croatia – One week prior to International Fast Food Workers day, the European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions (EFFAT) and the International Union of Food, Agricultural,...
World Day of Decent Work | 7 October 2019 Invest in Care
Under the slogan - Invest in Care - World Day of Decent Work this year sheds a light on the hard and vital work of domestic and care workers in...
Berry Callebaut workers win their long fought battle for their trade union rights
NGG workers at the Hamburg plant of Barry Callebaut, won a long fought battle for some of their key trade unions rights. Although contemplated in their general collective agreement of...
EFFAT urges for more #DemocracyAtWork
On occasion of the annual ETUC EWC Conference, EFFAT joined the other trade union federations and the ETUC demanding more democracy at work for a sustainable and more balanced corporate...
Cross-border solidarity and fight against inequalities at the heart of the EWC/TNC Coordinators’ Conference
Gathered at the annual EFFAT EWC-TNC Conference in Brussels on 12 and 13 June 2019, around 50 members of national and European works councils, Trade union officers and experts had...
Coca-Cola is not up to the image it wants to give to all its consumers, employees and shareholders
For almost three years of negotiation the Special Negotiating Group has been promoting an agreement that is worthy and respectful of the European workers of Coca-Cola European Partners.
Coca-Cola keeps...
CCEP BE and LUX announce restructuring of the Direct Service Delivery and Chaqwa Coffee organisations
CCEP announced today to the works council and the entire workforce the intention of changing its business model regarding the delivery of goods and the distribution of Chaqwa Coffee.
Stating...
Work-life balance Directive: EFFAT considers positively the provisional agreement reached in Trialogue
On 24 January 2019, the European Parliament, the Council and the European Commission involved in the Trialogue negotiations on the work-life balance Directive came to an agreement.
This compromise, which...
Practical advice for workers on AMR
This “practical advice and guidance” document addresses the role of workers in minimising the risk of exposure to antimicrobial resistant agents. The role of social partners remains very important in...
Fuenlabrada workers win their fight!
After 5 years of conflict and struggle with Coca Cola (CCEP), workers of Fuenlabrada, put an end to the labor and social conflict started in 2014. According to an agreement that...
FNV and NGG: JDE couldn’t care less about good industrial relations
Workers to take strike action at Utrecht coffee factory and Bremen administrative facilities
Jacobs Douwe Egberts workers in both Germany and the Netherlands will take industrial action on Thursday 22...
A sustainable Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) underpins fair treatment of workers in the fish supply chain
A sustainable Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) is really in place when workers, from fishers, to aquaculture and food processing staff, are fairly treated throughout the whole fish supply chain.
Unions' role...
Unilever commits to guaranteeing union rights and signs memorandum with the IUF and IndustriALL
On 31 October the general secretaries of the IUF and IndustriALL Global signed, with the CEO of Unilever, a joint memorandum on union rights.
In the text the parties agree...
A Global Week of Action to call for #Fairhousekeeping!
Hotel housekeepers and their unions will be taking action around the globe in the week of 8-14 October 2018.
This year, unions will be focusing on the need for negotiated...
World Day for Decent Work – ‘Changes the rules’: TO DO list for EU
The current European Commission and Parliament have until May 2019 to ‘change the rules’ to promote decent work for people across the EU who are getting increasingly disillusioned over precarious...
#FastFoodGlobal – EFFAT supports workers fighting for a living wage
On 4 October 2018, fast food workers all over the globe are rising up to demand their right to a union, better working conditions and a living wage.
In the...
Support our colleagues in Finland
On Wednesday 3 October, our colleagues in Finland will defend the rights of all employees against unfair dismissal by going on a political strike.
The Finnish government has put forward...
The EFFAT Coca-Cola discusses restructuring processes in the European Coca-Cola System in Hamburg
he EFFAT Coca-Cola coordination group gathered together on 19 June to discuss the restructuring processes in the European Coca-Cola System as well as the current EWC negotiations in Coca Cola...
EWC agreement signed at Asahi Breweries Europe Group (ABEG)
After a few months of intensive negotiations, on 6 June 2018 EFFAT and the Special Negotiating Body of Asahi Breweries Europe signed an EWC agreement in Pilsen (Czech Republic).
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SE Works Council Agreement signed at Delivery Hero
On 16 April 2018, an agreement establishing an SE Works Council in Delivery Hero was finally signed in Berlin, after months of tough negotiations.
This is good news, after the...
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