EFFAT represents the interests of over 4.5 million workers across Europe in the food and drink sector. As the largest in Europe, this is a key area in terms of workforce, innovation and quality products.
EFFAT's mission is to fight social dumping and achieve a fair pay and decent working conditions for all. Through its active participation in the social dialogue at European level, EFFAT negotiates agreements with European employers’ organisations that aim to improve workers’ conditions.
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An important step closer to a fairer food chain for everyone12/03/2019Today, 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 action will improve the trading... -
2nd Digitalisation workshop: Technology is not the solution, it is an enabler27/02/2019This was a fundamental statement for the future production environment including the food industry, that was made at the Northern European Social Partners’ workshop hosted in Copenhagen . A key outcome of the workshop was that it was clear that technology must be adapted to people, not the... -
CEFS and EFFAT speak out: no response to an unrelenting market decline30/01/2019apoSpeaking at today’s plenary meeting of the EU sugar sector social dialogue, representatives of the European Commission Directorate General for Agriculture & Rural Development once again offered no answers to the most pressing question ever faced by the EU beet sugar sector: how to arrest the... -
FNV and NGG: JDE couldn’t care less about good industrial relations20/11/2018Workers to take strike action at Utrecht coffee factory and Bremen, Germany administrative facilities November 22Jacobs 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 Utrecht... -
A sustainable Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) underpins fair treatment of workers in the fish supply chain16/11/2018A sustainable Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) is really in place when workers, from fishers, to aquaculture and food processing staff, are fairly treated throughout the whole fish supply chain.Unions' role is paramount as it eases workers' organization, collective bargaining and the... -
Unilever commits to guaranteeing union rights and signs memorandum with the IUF and IndustriALL06/11/2018On 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 operations workers can freely...
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Social partners in the EU sugar sector discuss unanswered questions surrounding the end of quotas20/10/2016At their annual working group meeting between trade unions and employers in the EU sugar sector, the social partners exchanged on the prospects and risks expected to accompany the end of the quota system in 2017.During the meeting, which was sponsored by the European Commission, it was highlighted... -
Zero tolerance of labour exploitation14/12/2015This code of conduct for fair and transparent employment relationships is in response to a report of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) (European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, 2015, « Severe labour exploitation: workers moving within or into the European Union ») which... -
Social Partners in the Sugar Sector release Socio-Demographic Analysis02/12/2015Over the past 10 years, the sugar sector has been particularly hit by a massive wave of restructurings leading to the closure of almost half of its factories and half of its workforce. Partly as a result of that process the current sugar workforce in Europe is particularly old in comparison with... -
Migrant Workers in the Meat Sector - A guide to your rights !07/08/2015Representing together over 12 million workers employed in agriculture and plantations, the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations (IUF) and its regional organization the European Federation of Food, Agriculture, Tourism Trade... -
Open letter against TTIP blocking urgent reforms in food safety, farm production, workers' rights and animal welfare15/04/2015EFFAT has drafted a joint letter to EU Commissioners for Health, Trade and Agriculture expressing concerns about the dangers posed by the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership to the integrity of the EU food and farming system, the welfare of workers in these sectors and the general... -
Public Open Call for Tender: EU Budget Heading 04 03 01 08 – VP/2014/001/0108 “Industrial Relations and Social Dialogue”23/10/2014Social Partners in the EU food and drink industry EFFAT and FoodDrinkEurope are calling for expressions of interest from a contractor (or consortium of contractors) able to carry out an important piece of research within the framework of an EU-funded project under the heading DG Employment 01 '...