EFFAT represents the interests of over 4.5 million workers across Europe in the food and drink sector. As the largest in Europe, this is a key EU area in terms of workforce, innovation and high quality products. The EFFAT mission is to fight social dumping and reach fair pay and decent working conditions. Through its active participation in the social dialogue at European level, EFFAT negotiates agreements with European employers’ organisations that aim to improve workers’ conditions
Deputy General Secretary (with responsibilities for Food, Drink, and Tobacco Sector): Wiebke Warneck – [email protected]
Chair: Susanne Uhl (NGG, Germany)
Deputy Chairs: Gaël David (FGA-CFDT, France) and Lea Väänänen (SEL, Finland)
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...
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...
EFFAT has released the final report on the joint EFFAT-FoodDrinkEurope project “New professions and career paths in the Food and Drink Industry: Delivering high-level food industry skills in the digital economy” tackling how digital technology is drastically changing...
To all EFFAT Member Organisations Dear colleagues, As the COVID-19 continues to spread across Europe, we believe it is of utmost importance to implement concrete initiatives to protect the health of EFFAT Staff and EFFAT affiliates. We have therefore decided to take...
During today’s annual Social Dialogue Plenary meeting, the social partners CEFS and EFFAT presented their fifteenth EU-wide Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report. Ever since 1969, just after the creation of the Sugar Common Market Organisation, social dialogue...
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...
The EU’s Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) has an admirable goal: to preserve and sustainably manage Europe’s fragile fish stocks. However, the CFP has tended to focuses almost exclusively on environmental questions, and has never paid sufficient attention to the human...
On the day food is celebrated globally, EFFAT sheds a light on the working conditions of all workers involved in the food supply chain. As food production systems are increasingly susceptible to shocks such as disease, droughts and pests, as well as climate change,...
Digital technology in all its forms, is drastically changing the face of manufacturing in the food and drink industry. Increasingly, due to product innovation and market competitiveness, new skills are required in a wide range of areas. EFFAT and FoodDrinkEurope...
The final conference of EFFAT bioeconomy project took place in Brussels on 3 October. The project focused on the implications of bioeconomy in terms of job creation and required skills of workers in the food and agriculture sectors, and also considered linkages with...
