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Maddalena Colombi
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International Migrants Day – Praising all migrant workers’ contribution to the EFFAT sectors
On International Migrants Day, EFFAT celebrates all migrant workers that allow some of its sectors to thrive. Over the last year, they have exposed their lives to provide essential services and kept vital sections of the economy going through the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
EFFAT – EFFE – EFSI – UNI-Europa Joint Statement on Personal and Household Services Workers Require Priority Access to COVID-19 vaccine
EFFAT, EFFE, EFSI and UNI Europa are delighted by the announcement that the European Commission is progressing with the acquisition of a large number of doses of an anti-Covid19 vaccine that will then be distributed to Member States[1]. The Commission’s prioritising...
Five urgent requests on EU-UK trade relations
Five urgent requests on EU-UK trade relations As the EU and UK trade negotiations seem be reaching a conclusion, Europe's farmers and agri-cooperatives, food manufacturers, traders, and agri-food sector workers have issued the following joint statement outing what...
Roadmap to rebuild the hospitality sector : Joint statement EFFAT – HOTREC
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, call upon the EU and Member States to follow a range of proposed measures to put...
European Commission Guidelines on Seasonal Workers: An encouraging step forward , but binding measures must be adopted soon
The European Commission issued today the long-awaited guidelines on seasonal workers in the context of the Covid-19 outbreak. The new Guidelines complement the Guidelines concerning the exercise of the free movement of workers during COVID-19 outbreak, published on 30...
Worker involvement in managing the Covid-19 crisis – Joint statement of the ETUC and ETUFs industriAll Europe, UNI Europa, EFFAT, EPSU, ETF, EFBWW
Time is running out: Concrete and rapid actions needed to enforce rights to worker involvement in anticipating and managing the COVID-19 crisis impact Three months after the COVID-19 health crisis hit the world and thousands lost their lives, the European Union is now...
EFFAT meat sector report: poor conditions to blame for spread of Covid-19
A new EFFAT report identifies the appalling working, employment and housing conditions affecting thousands of meat workers in many countries across Europe as the reasons why meat processing plants have become vectors for the spread of Covid-19. Launched today, the...
EFFAT welcomes European Parliament resolution on cross-border and migrant workers
EFFAT welcomes the European Parliament’s adoption of a resolution on the rights of cross-border and migrant workers. The food, agriculture and tourism sectors are host to the vast majority of seasonal, cross-border and migrant workers in Europe. In the context of...
International Domestic Workers Day – essential work too long undervalued
On International Domestic Workers Day 2020, trade unions and allied domestic workers’ groups are foregrounding the essential, but often undervalued or overlooked efforts of domestic workers in Europe and across the globe. No workers have been immune to the coronavirus...
World Day Against Child Labour – EFFAT adds its voice to the global call to end child labour
This Friday, 12 June 2020, EFFAT and allies throughout the global trade union movement mark World Day Against Child Labour. The focus this year is on the impact on child labour of the coronavirus pandemic. According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), the...
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