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EUCOB@N - Report on the collective bargaining and agreements for 2009 in EFFAT sectors
You will find on the EUCOB@N website the report on the collective bargaining and agreements for 2009 in EFFAT sectors. This report is available in English, French and German. Please click on the link below:Report-on-collective-bargaining-and-agreements-for-2009, or cut and paste the address in the location bar of your browser: http://www.eucoban.eu/EFFAT/EFFAT-Annual-Survey/Report-on-collective-bargaining-and-agreements-for-2009. EUCOB@N is a website jointly set-up by the European Industry Federations (EFFAT, EMF, EMCEF and ETUF:TCL) aiming at strengthening the visibility and impact of company, regional, national and European news on collective bargaining, industrial actions and strikes all over Europe.
08/07/2010

The new European Emissions Trading System (ETS) could damage jobs
Together with the Confederation of European Beet Growers (CIBE) and sugar beet processors (European Committee of Sugar Manufacturers, CEFS), EFFAT called on the Commission to take account of the fact that the priority here should be to preserve jobs and support the economies of rural areas whilst looking after the environment in line with any Commission model for a European Emissions Trading System (ETS). The new ETS taking shape today, but which will apply from 2013 and extend beyond 2020, could endanger rural development and economic activities in rural areas unless the specificities of agro-industry sectors like beet and sugar are taken into consideration.
05/07/2010

BEERWORKERS.ORG will aid international trade union cooperation
The first international trade union website using social networking tools – beerworkers.org - is online today. Its launch follows a successful conference last week for trade unionists representing workers in the world’s biggest beer companies: AB InBev, SAB Miller, Heineken and Carlsberg.
14/06/2010

EFFAT response to 4 questions from the European Commission on the reform of the CAP
The public debate organized by the EU Commission on the reform of the CAP has been extended till the 11th of June 2010. We are inviting all the member organizations concerned to largely take part in this debate. You will find hereby the EFFAT response to the following 4 questions from the European Commission: 1. Why do we need a European Common Agricultural Policy? 2. What do our citizens expect from agriculture? 3. Why does the CAP have to be reformed? 4. What set of instruments do we need for the CAP of the future? This document is available in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.
08/06/2010

For information : ETUC's European Day of Action- 29 September 2010
« No cuts, more growth » - European Day of Action On September 29, to coincide with a meeting of European finance ministers, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) will organise a European Day of Action. As European Governments move collectively to slash public expenditure, including jobs, pay and pensions, while the European economy is fragile and vulnerable to renewed recession, the ETUC is to mobilise a collective trade union response. This will be centred on a big demonstration in Brussels but the ETUC is calling on affiliates to take the maximum possible degree of action in all the countries of the European Union. This can include protest stoppages, demonstrations, meetings with Government finance ministers etc. The ETUC is also supporting the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) world wide Day of Decent Work on October 7.
08/06/2010

Sugar Project: external presentation of the “interactive tool employability 2010”
This working tool, presented in a concrete and pragmatic manner in the form of interactive pages, is accessible to all the players concerned on the joint site of the European social partners in the sugar industry eurosugar.org in three languages (English, French and German).
27/05/2010

ALPA information campaign on Farmers as stewards of biodiversity in agriculture
ALPA has carried out an information campaign with the support of the DG Agriculture of the EU Commission on the topic: "Farmers as stewards of biodiversity in agriculture". For further information, see the following link: “Gli agricoltori custodi della biodiversità in agricoltura”. The results are available in English and Italian;these underline the tight link existing between the agricultural and rural development and the defence of biodiversity, as well as the important contribution of small farmers to it.
18/05/2010

Food industry: meat sector needs to combat precarious work
During a two-day European conference, the trade unions of the food and beverages sector evidenced an increasing variety of new forms of labour, atypical contracts and a worrying rise of precarious work. EFFAT affiliates insisted once again on the need to combat the unsecure, unsafe and dangerous form of work in the meat sector.
04/05/2010

EFFAT Newsletter
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Tekel workers return* Employment secured at Coca Cola Germany* Caution against cutting AB InBev Jobs* Tripartite Social Summit* Parental leave extended* Commitment to equality between women and men* New publication on EWC transposition* What next with CAP after 2013?* Diacetyl* New EU Organic Logo* Food information for consumers* Half of world’s hungry are food producers * Sugar employability* Tourism in the Lisbon Treaty* A new framework for tourism policy* Report on poverty and social exclusion – 2010* Promoting skills and qualifications for the future* Commission launches ESCO* Colombian trade unionists’ killings* Storm Xynthia* Next EFFAT Meetings
21/04/2010

Tekel -Summary of Events
Here you can find a summary of what has happened with Tekel workers since December 2009. In case you have more information or messages, please send them to us. *EFFAT also invites its member organisations to join the solidarity campaign organised by IUF. It's very important for Tekgıda-İş and the 12.000 workers to receive your support through e-mails and actions.

15/04/2010

EFFAT Solidarity Message with Tekel

EFFAT-Solidaritätsbotschaft für Tekel-Arbeitnehmer und Tekgıda-İş

Message de solidarité de l’EFFAT à l’attention des travailleurs de Tekel

ETLC launches survey and discussion forum for tour guides, tour managers and entertainers
Tour guides, tour managers and entertainers - A dream job! – Really? The reality is often different. Many tour operators have relocated their recruitment agencies to Switzerland, from where the tour guides, tour managers and entertainers are dispatched to their workplaces in the tourism destinations, and which excludes them from information and consultation rights in the country of their origin and in European Works Councils. *Please distribute widely*
12/04/2010

ETLC Press Release Rights for Guides ESP

ETLC Press Release Rights for Guides IT

EFFAT on the Stockholm Programme: “The Commission’s Action Plan should be more realistic”
At a seminar on Wednesday organised by the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, EFFAT stressed that issues like combating social dumping, fighting precarious work and labour exploitation are missing from the Stockholm Programme and should be part of the Commission’s Action Plan.
25/03/2010

Position of the agricultural sector about the CAP reform after 2013
Adopted at the General Assembly Agriculture in Almeria, March 2010
23/03/2010

European Trade Unions Caution the World’s Biggest Brewer to Stop Cutting Jobs
Trade unions representing AB InBev workers across Europe have issued a joint statement condemning management’s plan to cut 10 % of the European workforce and warning of possible European actions if things don’t change.
10/03/2010

EFFAT Statement on ABINBEV Restructuring-DE

EFFAT Statement on ABINBEV Restructuring-EN

EFFAT Statement on ABINBEV Restructuring-NL

EFFAT Statement on ANINBEV Restructuring-FR

Columbian trade unionists killings are given away for trade
Full ratification of the agreed EU-Columbia deal will see initial tariff-free trade in 65 percent in “exchange” for Colombian trade unionist killings. These trade unionists account for roughly 60 percent of the world total. 39 of them were murdered in 2007 and another 49 in 2008.
03/03/2010

EFFAT Newsletter
Striking Tekel workers in Turkey will take a 15 to 20 day break and clear their tents in front of the headquarters of Türk-İş Confederation in response to a court decision that has given them renewed hope.
03/03/2010

Storm Xynthia to claim more victims
EFFAT regrets the many victims that storm Xynthia has claimed so far in Europe. However, more people will be killed or injured in the clear-up operations in the aftermath of the storm.
02/03/2010

Statement of FAI-CISL, FLAI-CGIL and UILA-UIL on grave events in Rosarno
In this statement FAI-CISL, FLAI-CGIL and UILA-UIL present the serious problems of undeclared work, illegal agricultural gangmasters and the poor working conditions of immigrant workers in the farming sector.
22/02/2010

Another subcontracting scandal at Danish Crown?
The German public prosecutor and tax authorities are examining serious allegations concerning Danish Crown in Germany. In December, a large number of subcontracted Romanian slaughterhouse workers were not paid at all - or were only paid in part. This is the sort of tough wage competition that other Danish Crown slaughterhouse workers are now up against.
02/02/2010

2010 - European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion
The Charter against precarious work, adopted by the 3rd EFFAT Congress on 20-21 October 2009 in Berlin, is a central document for EFFAT, particularly this year when the fight against poverty is at the top of the European agenda: The European Commission declared 2010 as the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion. "Almost 80 million Europeans live at risk of poverty, which means they face insecurity, and go without what most people often take for granted." The number of people facing poverty is increasing, and even having work is not a safeguard any more against social exclusion, as a growing number of jobs are marginalized and do not allow workers to earn a wage they can live on. Therefore, EFFAT actively supports the European campaign and, by implementing its Charter against precarious work, will contribute to the fight against poverty and social exclusion. More information you will find here in all European languages: 2010againstpoverty.eu
21/01/2010

DE EFFAT Charter against Precarious Work

EN EFFAT Charter against Precarious Work

FR EFFAT Charter against Precarious Work

SV EFFAT Charter against Precarious Work

ETLC launches Trade Union Charter on Tourism
Today, the ETLC launched at the European Tourism Forum, the European Trade Union Charter on Tourism, pointing out main challenges for workers in tourism and formulating expectations vis-à-vis the different stakeholders, employers, political actors and consumers.The ETLC underlines the need for quality employment, respect of workers' and trade union rights and social dialogue, claims equal treatment for mobile and migrant workers, and calls for proper information and consultation of workers and trade unions in case of outsourcing, subcontracting, restructuring and the entry of investment capital in travel, transport and tourism companies.
09/10/2009

Carta Europea dei Sindacati sul Turismo

ETLC Charte syndicale européenne sur le tourisme

ETLC Europäische Gewerkschafts-Charta für den Tourismus

ETLC European Trade Union Charter on Tourism