For almost three years of negotiation the Special Negotiating Group has been promoting an agreement that is worthy and respectful of the European workers of Coca-Cola European Partners. Coca-Cola keeps proposing to its employee representatives an agreement that is...
Today transport workers across Europe start their #FairTransport mobilisation. From 22 to 29 March workers across Europe will carry out a global action, organising pickets, events and rallies to demand decent work in their sector. EFFAT fully backs the European...
Today, Members of the European Parliament strongly voted in favour of promoting a fair food supply chain, delivering on their promise to #CutTheUnfair. The signatories welcome this historic vote for banning unfair trading practices in the food value chain. This...
CCEP announced today to the works council and the entire workforce the intention of changing its business model regarding the delivery of goods and the distribution of Chaqwa Coffee. Stating that over the last years there has been a constant decline of directive...
Workers to take strike action at Utrecht coffee factory and Bremen administrative facilities Jacobs Douwe Egberts workers in both Germany and the Netherlands will take industrial action on Thursday 22 November. In the Netherlands, the workers at the coffee factory in...
On 31 October the general secretaries of the IUF and IndustriALL Global signed, with the CEO of Unilever, a joint memorandum on union rights. In the text the parties agree on the establishment of a permanent platform for ensuring that throughout Unilever's worldwide...
On 2 October 2018 the Government of Hungary submitted an action for annulment (pursuant to Art. 263 TFEU) to the European Court of Justice, to contest the recently adopted revision of the Posting of Workers Directive. On 3 October also the Polish government did the...
EFFAT - together with farmers and food producers - welcomes the vote by members of the European Parliament’s Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee on the UTPs Directive as a clear step towards ensuring a fair and well-functioning food supply chain in...
Coalition of trade unions and anti-poverty group calls on the European Union and its Member States to strengthen legal tools against corporate tax avoidance. On Wednesday, 19 September 2018, the European Commission announced that arrangement between McDonald’s and...
Just over 200 days until the UK leaves the EU, we’re at crisis point. The Tory government has comprehensively failed to negotiate a Brexit that protects the jobs, rights and livelihoods of working people across the UK. We don’t represent the elite, the...
