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The EU Sugar market crisis– EFFAT & CEFS respond12/10/2018EFFAT, representing employees of the EU sugar sector, and CEFS, representing EU sugar manufacturers, unite to sound the alarm about the extreme crisis on the European sugar market. EU white sugar prices are now at their lowest since records began over twelve years ago. Even the most competitive... -
McAvoidin’it: European Commissioner Vestager says McDonald’s tax practices lawful, yet unfair25/09/2018Coalition of trade unions and anti-poverty group calls on the European Union and its Member States to strengthen legal tools against corporate tax avoidance. On Wednesday, 19 September 2018, the European Commission announced that arrangement between McDonald’s and Luxembourg, which allowed the fast... -
TUC position on Brexit10/09/2018Just over 200 days until the UK leaves the EU, we’re at crisis point.The Tory government has comprehensively failed to negotiate a Brexit that protects the jobs, rights and livelihoods of working people across the UK.We don’t represent the elite, the establishment or the business owners and bosses.... -
EP orders McDo to appear in hearing of TAXE3 Committee over tax avoidance18/06/2018European Parliament Orders McDonald’s to Make Unprecedented Third Appearance Before Committee Probing Tax AvoidanceSummons Follows Report Showing McDonald’s Dismantled Tax Structure Under Investigation by European Commission, Inhibiting Scrutiny of Company’s AccountsPress Release – 18 June 2018(... -
McDonald’s new menu: less transparency, more tax havens14/05/2018Today we release a new report on McDonald’s tax practices, focusing on the company’s use of tax avoidance mechanisms in Europe and low-tax and secrecy jurisdictions around the world. -
Time to deliver on women's rights!07/03/2018On International Women’s Day on 8 March 2018, EFFAT joins trade unions across Europe and around the world calling for Gender Equality NOW!EFFAT fully supports the ITUC campaign for an ILO Convention on “Violence and Harassment against Women and Men in the World of Work”, including gender-based... -
EFFAT and member organisations take Lactalis to court for breach of information and consultation rights08/02/2018Brussels, 8 February 2018 | Over the last few years, in several occasions EFFAT has supported its affiliates demanding the establishment of a European Works Council in the Lactalis Group, a demand that the world leader of the dairy industry has always rejected.In light of Lactalis’ negligence,... -
Workers’ representatives call for a change of course27/11/2017Unilever’s savings plan is drifting in the wrong directionEuropean Works Council repeats its demands on the sale of Spreads London/Rotterdam, 27 November 2017 Following the averted takeover bid, Unilever announced it was aiming to increase profits by 20% by 2020. The works councils, Germany’s Food... -
HOTREC and EFFAT urge the European Commission to make publicly available the proposal for guiding policy principles for short-term accommodation rental services in the so called collaborative economy.16/11/2017Brussels, 16 November 2017 – HOTREC, the umbrella association of hotels, restaurants and cafes in Europe, and EFFAT, the European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions, call the Commission for the publication of their proposal for guiding policy principles on short term... -
EFFAT and CEFS issue Joint Declaration on President Juncker’s Industrial Policy Strategy25/10/2017Brussels, 25 October 2017 - Sugar production in the EU is an industrial activity. The construction of a sugar factory entails high capital costs, typically of several hundred million euros.
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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.