Today EFFAT joins forces with other 27 organisations including the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA), Fair Trade Advocacy Office, the Open Society European Policy Institute (OSEPI), Oxfam, PICUM (the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented...
Along with other 38 co-signatories from the civil society, EFFAT co-signed a European Food Coalition letter link below) addressed to the European Commission Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans on the importance and urgency to keep April 2020 as the Farm to...
With 4,7 million workers providing Europeans with their daily food, EFFAT and FoodDrinkEurope, social partners in the food and drink industry have jointly released sectoral guidelines to be observed in companies during the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this joint...
The statement is supported by IDWF (International Domestic Workers Federation) Across Europe, personal and household services (PHS) provider organisations, private employers and workers are mobilising to address the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. The ultimate...
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 workers from farm to fork, the EFFAT sectors are particularly affected. In...
Food and drink is Europe’s largest manufacturing sector and our two organisations come together as EU Social Partners to represent the employees (EFFAT) and employers (FoodDrinkEurope) in the industry. Please see below our joint statement in the face of the Covid-19...
EFFAT expresses its solidarity to Italian trade unions in their tireless attempt to protect workers’ health and livelihood amid the COVID-19 outbreak. Following the Italian Government’s latest announcement to stop all business activities that are non-essential to the...
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 all workers. Being responsible to guarantee daily food supply to Europeans, EFFAT...
Low pay, uncertain hours, sexual harassment in the workplace and anti-union management: these are only some of the poor working conditions faced by thousands of fast food workers worldwide and some of the basic reasons for their increased protests and strikes in the...
