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#COVID-19 – A social emergency for millions of precarious workers in Europe
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 and IUF appoint new global fast food coordinator to unite European fast food workers
Low pay, uncertain hours, sexual harassment in the workplace and anti-union management: these are only some of the poor working conditions faced by thousands of fast food workers worldwide and some of the basic reasons for their increased protests and strikes in the...
Airline catering ETF-EFFAT joint appeal: the Commission must not allow one giant business to dominate the market
(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...
EFFAT Reaction on COVID-19 outbreak
In light of the further spread of Coronavirus in Europe, officially proclaimed by the World Health Organisation as a global pandemic, EFFAT expresses concern over the deepening public health crisis in many countries across Europe, and the real potential for a serious...
All EFFAT meetings are cancelled from today until 19 of April
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...
Social partners of the European Horeca sector recommend companies and employees to act responsibly, and call upon public authorities for support measures during and after the COVID-19 outbreak
HOTREC, the European umbrella association of Hotels, Restaurants and Cafés, and its trade union counterpart EFFAT, the European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions, advise companies and employees to respect all health and safety measures. As the...
International Women’s Day – EFFAT will always be on the side of women workers
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...
SIPTU solidarity on show at EFFAT ExCom
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...
EFFAT ExCom stands with workers at JDE coffee processing plant, UK
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’...
Coronavirus – EFFAT echoes concerns over impact on jobs and workers in Italy
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...
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