Europe numbers one million agricultural employers who provide work to over 7 million workers. With 15 million farm holdings, in which over 40 million people work, the agriculture sector makes a vital contribution to healthy nutrition, and still plays a key role in the economic, environmental and social policies in Europe. EFFAT activities in the agriculture sector include promoting a sustainable Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), safeguarding employment and fair pay in rural areas, and further developing social dialogue in order to improve working conditions in this sector.
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Call for tenders for a new EU co-funded project on the development of green jobs in agriculture03/12/2012Call for proposals for the recruitment of outside experts for a new project cofunded by the EU, which main objective is to analyze the relationship between employment, new developments and green workplaces and to develop options to deal with it. Deadline for sending proposals: 17 December 2012.
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Seasonal Workers are People, not Commodities14/11/2012In the European Parliament on the 10th November, EFFAT reminded the Socialist-Democrat Group Seminar dealing with proposals for seasonal employment and intra-corporate transfer directives that seasonal workers are people, not commodities, and that equal treatment at work needs to assured. Most...
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14 November 2012: European Day of Action and Solidarity13/11/2012The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) is calling for a European Day of Action and Solidarity on 14 November. The European trade union movement is mobilising in favour of employment and solidarity and against austerity.
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EFFAT & EFBWW Press Release - Stop MEP Jazłowiecka's plan for more social dumping and exploitation13/11/2012Recently, Ms Danuta Jazłowiecka, Polish Member of the European Parliament (EPP), published her draft report regarding the proposed Enforcement Directive, which should improve the enforcement of the current Posting of Workers Directive. At a time when it is widely...
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European Commission’s review on nanomaterials puts workers at risk06/11/2012The European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions (EFFAT) has voiced concern that the European Commission's "Second Regulatory Review on Nanomaterials", published last month, ignores critical safety concerns for workers and consumers.While EFFAT is aware of discussions on...
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Enough is enough: 29 February European Action Day08/02/2012In the face of a worsening economic and social situation and the ever-tougher austerity measures being imposed by Europe’s leaders through a new treaty as the only solution, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) has called for a European day of action on 29 February, the eve of the European...
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Agreement of the European social partners providing rural services (EFFAT Agriculture sector and CEETTAR)26/04/2007
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Position of the agricultural sector on the Fruit & Vegetables Reform16/03/2007 -
Position of EFFAT Agricultural sector on the reform of viticulture in the EU08/03/2007Position adopted at the last General Assembly Agriculture in Porto on 2 March 2007.
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EFFAT position on the reform of the wine market regulation09/10/2006 -
On the status of the negotiations in the Doha round of the World Trade Organization (WTO)19/09/2006Effective and sustainable development on our planet is today completely unthinkable without globalisation and world trade. But it is only possible when the main players responsible for this development bid farewell to the myth of social and economic Darwinism, according to which free trade is a...
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Conclusions of the Commission Wine Seminar16/02/2006
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EFFAT is the European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions. As a European Trade Union Federation representing 120 national trade unions from 35 European countries, EFFAT defends the interests of more than 22 million workers towards the European Institutions, European employers’ associations and transnational companies. EFFAT is a member of the ETUC and the European regional organisation of the IUF.