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New Year – Continuity and Change: EFFAT’s plans for 2020
It may be the start of a new year, but some truths remain constant: strong trade unions are vital to ensure social justice, better working conditions and decent wages. From progressive decentralisation of collective bargaining, to austerity measures and the...
COP25 – EFFAT joins growing calls for urgency
As COP25 proceeds in Madrid, EFFAT is concerned by the remarks of Johan Rockström, Joint Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, who told The Guardian that “we are at risk of getting so bogged down in incremental technicalities at these...
Iran: Unpaid wages, hungry workers, live bullets
Mass protests in cities across Iran erupted on November 15 in response to a hike in the price of fuel. The government responded with lethal force and shut down the internet, and in some places even mobile phone service, cutting people off from one another and from the...
EU tool free of charge will help HORECA companies test if they are compliant with European legislation on health and safety at work
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, launched today, under the umbrella of the European...
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, renew today their Joint Statement on the Platform...
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. While all salaries have increased by 1.1% in Belgium, only the...
Solidarity with Bulgaria affiliates taking the streets in defence of their social security rights
Today EFFAT sends its message of support and solidarity to all NFZGS CL Podkrepa’s members taking the streets to defend their trade union as well as social and social security rights. First, EFFAT is standing with Bulgarian workers fighting for a pay raise for nights...
VIDEO | EFFAT Workers’ Journey Bringing Food from Farm to Fork
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, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers'...
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