Every year on April 28, throughout the world the trade union movement comes together to mark International Workers Memorial Day, remembering those who have died at work, or from work-related injury or disease, and resolving to continue to organise – even more...
By Kristjan Bragason, EFFAT General Secretary (Originally published on OpenCorporation blog, 19/04/2020 - also available to read in Italian) The spread of Coronavirus is first and foremost a health crisis, and our hearts in EFFAT go out to all those who have lost...
The EFFAT secretariat received yesterday messages of solidarity from colleagues in IUF Asia-Pacific. On behalf of all affiliates, the secretariat conveys its gratitude to IUF Asia-Pacific for their kind and welcome words of support. In letters to EFFAT-IUF affiliates...
On behalf of EFFAT, we wish to express our solidarity and support to all our affiliates who are doing a fantastic job in protecting workers in all our sectors. Many of our members are faced with job losses and falls in income, on top of general health & safety...
(Repost from ETF website) In the name of airline catering workers in Europe, the European Transport Workers’ Federation and EFFAT provided input to an EC merger control case this week with the help of our US colleagues from UNITE HERE! and Teamsters. The case relates...
This International Women’s Day, EFFAT welcomes the European Commission’s Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025. Released earlier this week, the Strategy echoes several of EFFAT’s key longstanding demands in the field of workplace gender equality, including combating...
On the second day of EFFAT’s Executive Committee, the EFFAT leadership showed their collective support for Irish affiliate, SIPTU, in their ongoing campaign 'STOP 67' to prevent planned pension increases. Ireland’s pension age is already 2 years above the EU average...
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 in order to participate in a process of “meaningful negotiation” with workers’...
With more than 650 confirmed cases and 17 fatalities in Northern Italy, Italy has seen a sharp spike in cases of coronavirus (COVID 19) forcing the government to impose a lockdown and implement severe precautionary measures on citizens, public spaces, schools and...
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 Monday. Read EFFAT’s full letter of solidarity below. ______________________ Brussels, 28...
