EFFAT took part in a 2 year project "Corporate Due Diligence and Non-Financial Disclosure: Threats or New Levers for Workers' Representatives?" together with ETUC and its sister European Trade Union Federations. As an outcome of the project a toolkit called "Corporate...
EFFAT has contributed to the negotiations that led to the set-up of a European Works Council (EWC) at Intersnack Group. The EWC will ensure that the group workers coming from 20 different member states will be informed and consulted by management on economic, social...
Although the COVID-19 pandemic forced us to reorganise the annual conference of the EFFAT TNC-EWC coordinators group into an online event, more than 70 participants had the opportunity to connect on 10 November 2020 to exchange experiences and good practices on a wide...
(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...
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’...
Grant agreement - VS/2019/0062 EFFAT is looking for an expert in the framework of the project: Making full use of the EU social acquis to better shape the impact of technological developments in the European food and drink industry. The project has two main...
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 the company is the biggest Coca-Cola bottler globally in...
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 confectionery industry, workers were denied of equal treatment on pay, working time...
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 government. Different organisations signed a statement calling for new EU...
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 the opportunity to exchange experiences and good practices around topics of paramount...
