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Maddalena Colombi
m.colombi@effat.org
F2F Code of Conduct: A code for businesses, written by businesses with zero commitment on social dialogue and collective bargaining.
Brussels, 5 July 2021 - Today, the European Commission releases the Code of Conduct for Responsible Business and Marketing Practices under the Farm to Fork (F2F) strategy, referring to the processing part of the food chain. EFFAT very much regrets to witness that the...
European alliance calls on EU governments to ratify convention on domestic workers
An alliance of employers, trade unions, European and international institutions and civil society organisations has ramped up calls for the protection of Europe’s 9.5 million domestic workers, including millions of home care workers. On the 10th Anniversary of the ILO...
CAP reform: The inclusion of social conditionality in today’s political deal is a great trade union victory.
Brussels, 25 June 2021 - Co-legislators struck a political deal on the next reform of the Common Agricultural Policy following yesterday and today’s Jumbo trilogue. For the first time in history, EU Institutions have agreed on a CAP reform that takes into account the...
#Rights4AllSeasons – EFFAT joins European Labour Authority’s Campaign on fair work for seasonal workers
Brussels, 15 June 2021 - Today EFFAT joins the European Labour Authority (ELA)’s campaign “Rights for all seasons” which will run until October 20201 with an action week foreseen between 20-24 September. The campaign, targeting in particular seasonal workers in the...
NGG secures wage increase for 160.000 German meat workers
After weeks of mobilising and more than 20 strikes, NGG succeeded to get employers´ organisations in the German meat industry back to the negotiating table, while increasing trade union membership. Trade unions and employers struck a deal on a nationwide minimum wage,...
Failure of CAP trilogue negotiations is a missed opportunity. EFFAT’s fight for a CAP that delivers for farm workers continues
Brussels, 28 May 2025 - EFFAT welcomes the progress made during this week's trilogue negotiations on social aspects. However, more must be done to deliver an effective social conditionality mechanism, broad in scope, through which CAP could finally uphold the respect...
A spotlight on food chain workers: ETUI HesaMag#23 out today
Today the European Trade Union Institute ( ETUI) , in collaboration with EFFAT, has released the latest HesaMag #23, the ETUI publication about health and safety at work, released twice a year, in English and French. This edition offers an insight into the daily lives...
EU Porto Social Summit (7-8 May 2021) | 3 EFFAT demands for a fairer Europe for workers
On 7- 8 May 2021, representatives of the EU Institutions, EU heads of states and social partners, will come together to shape the European social policy agenda for the years to come and reinforce their commitment to the implementation of the European Pillar of Social...
28 April – Workers Memorial Day: Health & Safety is your right!
With 1 in 3 people working from home, and those at the workplace taking special precautions, COVID-19 shows the life and death importance of health and safety at work. Among the 530,000 deaths from COVID-19 in the European Union* are uncounted thousands of workers...
Time for a CAP that upholds the respect for workers’ rights! Time for social conditionality!
Trade unions judge it unacceptable and misleading to refer to workers’ rights as red tape Brussels – 14 April 2021 - A new harvesting season has started but very little has changed for agricultural workers in Europe: undeclared work, poverty wages, deplorable health...
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