Tuesday, the @nat-eesc.bsky.social met with youth organisations involved in the #EESCYouthTest
We discussed:
🔹How to strengthen youth participation in EU policymaking
🔹Shared priorities & possible future cooperation
Discover more on youth activities at the EESC
👉 link.europa.eu/FRWjnv
🗣️Emergency steps taken during the last energy crisis mitigated its impact and we must re-active them. But we must also deal with the root cause of the problem by investing in cheap and reliable European energy production so that we are not left hostage to fortune in future - @estherlynch.bsky.social
That is why the ETUC is calling for:
1️⃣The decoupling of electricity prices from gas
2️⃣An increase in electricity grid capacity
3️⃣An increase public investment in infrastructure
4️⃣SURE 2.0 to save jobs and livelihoods
5️⃣Windfall taxes on energy companies
6️⃣A suspension of the EU's fiscal rules
If current prices persist, the average annual energy bill in the EU would:
💸Rise from €3,792 to €5,688 – 12% of total household spending
💸Cost €2,000 more in 11 member states
💸Account for more than 10% of all household spending in the majority of member states
Europe must act to reduce bills
🔴The average household energy bill in the EU will rise by more than €1800 a year if current prices persist
New trade union research shows the devastating cost for working people of the failure to address Europe’s dependency on highly volatile fossil fuel
📰 www.etuc.org/en/pressrele...
#NoContractNoCoffee
EFFAT & @epsu.bsky.social joined the action to back #Starbucks workers on strike in the US for collective agreements & fair working conditions!
Stop hiding behind franchise networks! Take responsibility for ensuring decent conditions to workers.
@sbworkersunited.org
#IUF
#NoContractNoCoffee
📣 EPSU & @effat.org take action to support #Starbucks workers on strike in the US!
✊🏾 We join @sbworkersunited.org & @seiu.org’s global action call - #solidarity with Starbucks workers.
A recent report reveals major tax avoidance of Starbucks - pay your taxes, pay fair wages!
@cncd.be @foeeurope.bsky.social @viacampesinabe.bsky.social @hetacv.bsky.social
🚫 NO to the EU-Mercosur agreement 🚫
It threatens workers’ rights, farmers’ livelihoods, public health and the environment both in EU and in Mercosur countries.
🌱 Today EFFAT joined #NGOs, farmers and #CSOs to demand fair, sustainable and rights-based trade.
🌍🔥 STOP EU-MERCOSUR ⛔
👉 StopEUMercosur.org
1️⃣ Email your decision-makers :
✍️ StopEUMercosur.org/take-action
2️⃣ Join the #ToxicTradeTour 📢
📅 Monday 24 Nov 🕑 10:00
📍 Brussels, Petite rue de la Loi
#StopEUMercosur #StopToxicTrade
@greenpeace.eu @broederlijkdelen.bsky.social @paneurope.bsky.social
Productive #SSDC for #EFFAT and @hotrec.bsky.social
On the agenda:
🔈 #EU Sustainable Tourism Strategy
🔈 Joint action on short-term rentals that distort competition and squeeze housing in tourist hotspots.
🔈 Update on #StrongerHospitality
Thanks to all affiliates for their input!
🚌Deregulation is on a road to nowhere!
EFFAT has 10 reasons to Park the #Omnibus before the 13 November EP vote!
The so-called “simplification” rolls back workers’ rights, environmental protection & access to justice.
📹Stay tuned, watch:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro9k...
Feat. @enricosomaeffat.bsky.social, @iufgs.bsky.social
Nestlé plans to cut 16,000 jobs, mostly in Europe.
EFFAT & IUF organising workers across Nestlé say: STOP the layoffs!
🔹Stop axing jobs!
🔹Put people before (HUGE) profit.
🔹Respect and consult unions.
Read our statement and PR: effat.org/featured/nes...
EFFAT Agricultural President Fabrizio De Pascale met in with unions from the three countries to discuss the CAP’s social conditionality and its post-2027 reform.
from CZ, SK,and HU all agreed:on the need to defend and pursue a stronger #SocialConditionality across Europe.
❓What are the benefits of being part of the #EU & joining #EFFAT for candidate countries?
Today we opened our #OSH Seminar in #Brussels w/ colleagues from candidate countries to boost cooperation, strengthen rights & improve safety across all sectors. 💪
💥 Congrats to our very own Grace Papa, EFFAT Political Secretary on Gender Equality & Domestic Workers, on her unanimous election to the @etuc-ces.bsky.social Women’s Committee Presidium!
Her passion for defending women & domestic workers’ rights shines bright at the European level
👏 EFFAT congratulates #UILTuCS #Fisascat and #Filcams on the first Company Supplemental Agreement at McDonald’s Italy!
A milestone for 4,000 workers after 40 years of McDonald’s presence in the country. A great example of social dialogue and collective bargaining advancing workers’ rights.
Great to welcome a delegation from UA Zensen, Japan’s largest private-sector union, to Brussels this week!
We shared experiences on organising, #EWCs and discussed workers challenges.
Grateful for the solidarity, insights & friendship
@enricosomaeffat.bsky.social
📢 Big win for workplace democracy!
Today’s vote in the European Parliament brings us closer to stronger, more effective European Works Councils.
🗳️ Now it’s up to Member States to seal the deal.
👉 Read the full press release here: wp.me/paPMJb-9rT
#EWCs #WorkplaceDemocracy
Today on #World Decent Day, we’re standing up for workers and our planet.
The #Omnibus is speeding ahead, but it’s headed the wrong way.
Let’s hit the brakes before social economic and environmental progress goes off a cliff.
📽️Watch!
youtu.be/ro9knVQb_Ng
🇮🇹 "Despite widely reported tragedies, #Italy ’s agricultural sector remains heavily reliant on the invisible and severely exploited labour of thousands of undocumented workers. This situation is sustained by deliberate political choices".
www.equaltimes.org/how-many-mor...
📢 Today in Brussels!
EFFAT joins @etuc-ces.bsky.social @etf-europe.bsky.social & @efbww.bsky.social in the @europarl.europa.eu for:
❌“No more exploitation: Regulating subcontracting & labour intermediation in Europe”.
EFFAT #TNCConference in Barcelona reiterates our call to #EndAbuse
JDE Peet's
Nestlé Waters
Just Eat Takeaway (Lieferando)
Eker
📍 In Barcelona, our TNC Committee met to strategise on #CS3D, EWCs, restructuring & gender equality.
✊ We stand with workers taking action in Nestlé Waters, Lieferando, JDE Peet’s & Eker.
Together we defend jobs, rights & dignity across Europe.
🔗 Read our article: wp.me/paPMJb-9ru
#EFFAT is sending our warmest greetings to @3f.dk on the occasion of our Danish member’s 7th Congress in Aalborg.
We look forward to the outcomes of the upcoming debates for the strengthening of workers’ rights and solidarity.
www.3f.dk/kongres2025
🍽️ Behind the food on our plate lie frequent labour abuses.
🎬 Tonight in Brussels, #BackToTheFuture screens
@thepickers.org documentary, followed by a debate with EFFAT agriculture secretary Ivan Ivanov.
A not to miss opportunity to hear our demands for a fairer #CAP post-2027.
Don’t miss it!
📸Images from #SE Council in Zagreb 🌍
Our affiliates met to strengthen cooperation, solidarity, and synergies across the region.
💡Focus was on campaigns, collective bargaining, the Minimum Wage Directive, #TNCs, candidate countries, and mobilisations on #subcontracting, #CAP & #publicprocurement.
Last week @europarl.europa.eu voted for better public procurement rules: a step forward, but we warn that binding #SocialConditionality must be the guiding principle of the upcoming revision so that public money stops fuelling the current race to the bottom.
EFFAT view: effat.org/in-the-spotl...
This week the @europarl.europa.eu set its position on the future #CAP.
EFFAT warns: the CAP proposal risks undermining labour rights, social progress, and fair competition.
CAP must raise labour standards, not finance violations.
Our recent op-ed explains exactly why.
table.media/agrifood/tab...
This week EFFAT featured among 470 signatories of a clear message to the EU, ahead of #SOTEU: Don't weaken the rules to protect working people and planet.