EFFAT fully supports the joint ETUC’s stance opposing efforts to deregulate essential EU laws like the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D) and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). The CS3D establishes clear, democratically...
For workers in agriculture, food processing and hospitality, the decision to put profits before people continues to have disastrous consequences. Farm workers struggle to put food on their tables. Food processing workers operate in fast-paced factories with high...
Company restructuring is no longer an exceptional circumstance. It has become a daily reality faced by trade unions and workers and a regular feature across all sectors and activities. It can also be very difficult to navigate. The Transnational Restructuring...
An agreement in principle has been found for the establishment of a new European Works Council in the family owned French transnational company LDC. LDC is the largest poultry meat company in France and operates in Europe with production plants based in Poland,...
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...
