The EFFAT Company Policy department helps establish and support European Works Councils (EWCs) in the EFFAT sectors and fosters crossborder cooperation and solidarity in large transnational companies (TNCs).
The Company Policy department represents and advocates EFFAT views with senior management of TNCs, social partners, stakeholders and the European institutions. This involves:
- establishing and coordinating ethical EWCs in companies;
- monitoring legal and political developments relating to information, consultation and participation in European companies;
- providing expertise, advice and information on best practices to improve the functioning of EWCs and other European-level work related to multinationals from a trade union perspective;
- supporting industrial disputes and solidarity campaigns at the European level.
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EFFAT supports Belgian affiliates in today’s general strike13/02/2019EFFAT supports today’s general strike organised by the Belgian trade unions FGTB, CSC and CGSLB.The Belgian Interprofessional Agreement for 2019-2020 is currently being negotiated.Although the economy is growing as well as shareholders’ dividends and companies’ profit, employers’ organisations,... -
CCEP Belgium and Luxembourg announces the restructuring of the Direct Service Delivery and Chaqwa Coffee organisations28/01/2019CCEP 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 deliveries of goods and that... -
Fuenlabrada workers win their fight!14/12/2018After 5 years of conflict and struggle with Coca Cola (CCEP), workers of Fuenlabrada, put an end to the labor and social conflict started in 2014. According to an agreement that workers consider ‘a social triumph’, Coca-Cola will close the logistical centre in Fuenlabrada. But within two years... -
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... -
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... -
Anticipating the impact of Brexit on multinational companies29/10/2018Joint European Trade Union Federations’ Recommendations to EWC/SE coordinators and worker representatives in SNBs, EWCs and SEsOn 29 March 2017, the United Kingdom (UK) formally notified its intention to leave the European Union (EU).Negotiations on the UK’s withdrawal are ongoing, but their...
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Better Regulation Package - EFFAT denounces threat to social and environmental standards03/07/2015EFFAT has published its position paper on the better Regulation package released by the European Commission and highlights its concern over a potential dismantle of labour, social and environmental standards.EFFAT generally agrees with some of the supposed objectives of the Better Regulation... -
EFFAT provides tools at Zagreb conference for Managing stress and psychosocial risks in the workplace30/04/2015On 28 April, the World Day for Health and Safety at Work, EFFAT held a meeting in Zagreb about the EU co-funded project ‘Fostering the role of the EFFAT European Works Councils (EWCs): Taking an active role in managing stress and psychosocial risks’. -
Coca-Cola European Action Day - 5 May 201428/04/2014Under attack by the media, health crusading politicians and other social activists, in recent years Coca-cola has been struggling to maintain its positive reputation. To this end, it has developed an “ambassadors program” that aims to turn each of its employees into its primary supporters – if... -
European Manifesto for a socially sustainable Coca-Cola system03/04/2014Across all European bottlers today, Coca-Cola is implementing continued attacks on jobs, work-life balance and workers’ rights by making incessant requests for enhanced labor flexibility. This attitude clearly reveals that in spite of the significant financial profits obtained by the Coca-Cola... -
DECLARATION: European trade unions condemn Coca-Cola’s aggressive attack on jobs and workers’ rights29/11/2013The EFFAT Coca-Cola Coordination Group, composed of representatives of the workforce of The Coca-Cola Company, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Coca-Cola Hellenic BC, Coca-Cola Iberian Partners and Coca-Cola EAG, meeting on 28 and 29 November 2013 in Antwerp, Belgium, declares:we condemn the endless quest... -
Collective labour agreement after 11 negotiations at CCE AG Germany10/04/2013We are happy to inform you that our German affiliate NGG could now conclude a very successful collective labour agreement in the German Coca-Cola AG, after 11 rounds of negotiations. Please find more information in the attached English, French and German leaflet.