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EFFAT sends solidarity message to NGG in advance of fast food worker pay arbitration
EFFAT today extends its support and solidarity to German affiliate NGG as fast food workers’ longstanding struggle for fair pay in the sector is set to go to arbitration next Monday. Read EFFAT’s full letter of solidarity below. ______________________ Brussels, 28...
Gender Pay Gap – Trade Unions demand an End to Pay Secrecy
Ahead of the European Commission’s publication of its proposals for binding rules on gender pay transparency, EFFAT took part today in a visual street theatre action in front of the European Commission building to “end the secrecy” over pay. With the initiative,...
EWC Coca-Cola European Partners agreement signed after tough and long negotiations
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...
Iran: Unpaid wages, hungry workers, live bullets
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...
EU tool free of charge will help HORECA companies test if they are compliant with European legislation on health and safety at work
Brussels, 29 November 2019: HOTREC, the European umbrella association of Hotels, Restaurants and Cafés, and its trade union counter-part EFFAT, the European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions, launched today, under the umbrella of the European...
Social partners call for a level playing field in the hospitality sector
Brussels, 29 November 2019: HOTREC, the European umbrella association of Hotels, Restaurants and Cafés, and its trade union counter-part EFFAT, the European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions, renew today their Joint Statement on the Platform...
Solidarity with Bulgaria affiliates taking the streets in defence of their social security rights
Today EFFAT sends its message of support and solidarity to all NFZGS CL Podkrepa’s members taking the streets to defend their trade union as well as social and social security rights. First, EFFAT is standing with Bulgarian workers fighting for a pay raise for nights...
International Day of Action for Fast Food Workers’ Rights – EFFAT stands in solidarity
Tuesday 12 November 2019 marks an international day of action for fast food workers’ rights. Across the EU and the USA, fast food workers are demanding a living wage, decent working conditions and their right to join a union – and EFFAT stands in solidarity with all...
5th EFFAT Congress elects new Leadership 2020-2024
6 November 2019 Zagreb, Croatia – Today the 5th EFFAT Congress elected its new team for 2020-2024 mandate. Congress is EFFAT’s decision-making event, at which its affiliated trade unions decide the course of the federation for the next five years. It...
EFFAT CEE-SEE Conference adopts proposals for regional cooperation and stronger trade unions
"We want to become stronger" This was the motto under which some 50 representatives of food, agriculture and tourism trade unions from Central, Eastern and South-East Europe (SEE) came together in Zagreb on 4 and 5 November 2019 – in the build-up to the 5th EFFAT...
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