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EFFAT supports #FairTransport in Europe!
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...
An important step closer to a fairer food chain for everyone
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 BE and LUX announce restructuring of the Direct Service Delivery and Chaqwa Coffee organisations
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...
FNV and NGG: JDE couldn’t care less about good industrial relations
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...
Unilever commits to guaranteeing union rights and signs memorandum with the IUF and IndustriALL
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...
ETUC strongly condemns the complaint of the Hungarian and Polish governments on the Posting of Workers Directive
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...
EP supports fair and efficient food supply chain to tackle unfair trading practices
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...
McAvoidin’it: European Commissioner Vestager says McDonald’s tax practices lawful, yet unfair
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...
TUC position on Brexit
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...
Joint Statement: The United Nations Global Compact on Migration is a Key Opportunity to Recognise Rights of Migrant Domestic and Care Workers
The United Nations Global Compact on Migration is a Key Opportunity to Recognise Rights of Migrant Domestic and Care Workers BRUSSELS, 15 JUNE 2018 - Across Europe, many individuals and families rely on support to carry out essential domestic and care work, to look...
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