European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions

Mission & Goals

1. Composition 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 employees towards the European Institutions, European associations and enterprise management. 2. Objectives EFFAT is an autonomous European trade union federation. As a member of the ETUC, EFFAT promotes members' interests jointly and with strength regarding all European interprofessional issues. EFFAT also supports the IUF which defends members' interests world- and sector-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 and restaurant, contract catering, (...)