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About EFFAT
EFFAT is the European Federation of Trade Unions in the Food, Agriculture and Tourism sectors resulting from the merger concluded between two European trade union federations, the ECF-IUF and EFA, on 11 December 2000. As a European Federation representing 120 national trade unions from 35 European countries, EFFAT defends the interests of more than 2.6 million members towards the European Institutions, European industrial federations and enterprise management.
EFFAT is an autonomous European trade union federation. As a member of the ETUC, EFFAT is promoting the members' interests jointly and with strength regarding all the European interprofessional issues. As the regional organisation within the IUF, EFFAT is defending the members' interests world-and sectoral-wide.
In recent years EFFAT has set up European Works Councils in more than 100 transnational groups and has a successful social dialogue under way in, among others, the agriculture, hotel < restaurant, contract catering, sugar and tobacco sectors.
EFFAT supports its member organisations in Central and Eastern Europe in building up free and strong trade unions.
For quite a time EFFAT has given its support to a sustainable development of the agrofood- and tourism policy in which ethnical, social and ecological aspects are considered. Only safe and high quality food can also guarantee safe jobs and working conditions.
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