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March-July 2025
On the Streets
The Fight for Agri-Workers Rights: From the Fields to the EU
EFFAT along with MEPs and EU officials visited Borgo Mezzanone (Puglia), Italy's largest shanty town, to experience first hand the reality migrant and undocumented farm workers face on the ground in the European fields. After the visit FLAI CGIL and EFFAT organised a roundtable to assess the reality in the region and urge national and European Governance to act.
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#UnequalNoMore: EFFAT Launches Campaign on
Gender Equality
#UnequalNoMore is the Gender Equality campaign launched at the EFFAT Executive Committee meeting in Copenhagen. The campaign focuses on the alarming disparities in pay, working conditions, and career advancement opportunities for millions of women workers in EFFAT sectors and provides concrete tools to improve gender equality.
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EFFAT & UNI-Europa Billboard Campaign to Improve Public Procurement Rules
Together with UNI-Europa, EFFAT is calling on Members of the European Parliament in the Internal Market Committee to strengthen collective bargaining in the EU’s ongoing efforts to reform public procurement.
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EFFAT Youth Committee Supports Affiliates Fighting
for Democracy and Rule of Law in Serbia
The EFFAT Youth Committee stands firmly with young people in Serbia who are courageously demanding democracy, transparency, and an end to corruption.
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EFFAT Writes to EU Commission over Istanbul Mayor İmamoğlu Imprisonment
EFFAT wrote to High Representative Kallas, to express our serious concern regarding the imprisonment of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, alongside over 100 municipal officials and 1,000 peaceful protesters.
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EFFAT Celebrates International Domestic Workers Day 2025
On International Domestic Workers Day, EFFAT celebrated and stood in solidarity with the millions of domestic workers across Europe — many of whom are migrant women — who provide essential personal and household services to families and are essential to society. EFFAT was present in the UK and in Belgium for actions with affiliates.
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In the Workplace
A Truly Happy Meal for Fast Food Workers in Austria
EFFAT celebrates the new Collective Agreement between McDonald's and unions Gewerkschaft Vida and Gewerkschaft GPA, which brings: better pay, more free time, and stronger rights for
9,600 workers.
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Solidarity to Spanish Sugar Workers in AB Foods
EFFAT sends their solidarity to Spanish sugar workers at AB Foods facing massive layoffs.
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PPDIV Workers in the Fortanova Group Strike for Equal Treatment
EFFAT sent a letter to management and showed solidarity to workers in Croatia calling for a collective agreement that would preserve existing rights and ensure wage growth with the company.
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EFFAT Leads Coordination Calls across Major Companies
EFFAT engaged its affiliates in coordination calls in key transnational companies: McDonald's, Plukon, Heineken, AB InBev, Princess,
and Andros.
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Solidarity with Greek Workers from POEET
EFFAT sent solidarity to POEET protesting against the declining workers' purchasing power and low wages.
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EFFAT Attends
EWC Meetings
In the last months, EFFAT staff has attended EWC meetings in the following companies: Club Med, PMI, Sodexo, CCEP, Heineken, Intersnack, LDC, Elior, Radisson, JET, SSP, and PMI.
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In the EU
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EFFAT Executive Committee
Following its 6th Congress, EFFAT convened its inaugural ExCo meeting in Copenhagen at the invitation of 3F and the Nordic Unions. During the meeting, we adopted key position papers and the biannual sectoral and committee action plans. For the first time, we also held a strategic discussion during the ExCo, and this time the topic was AI.
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#EndingAbuse:
Restoring Fair Work
in Europe
EFFAT along with invited MEPs, workers, trade unions, and the European Commission made the case for an EFFAT Directive on fair working conditions in subcontracting chains and labour intermediation.
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A CAP New Day:
EFFAT Kicks Off
Post-2027 CAP Demands
In the presence of EU Commissioner Hansen, workers, and MEPs, EFFAT officially launched "A new Day for CAP: A More Social CAP for a Truly Attractive European Agriculture.” The document lays out a bold vision to reform the EU’s agricultural policy and deliver safer, fairer, and more dignified working conditions in the sector.
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The European Commission's Omnibus Package is
a Direct Attack on Workers' Rights
At the last Executive Committee in Copenhagen, EFFAT adopted a resolution against the Omnibus package, aimed at simplifying reporting obligations in the EU’s sustainability framework. This proposal would directly address the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).
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In the Media
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