Creating a strong European industrial base is fundamental when securing the foundation of the EU’s economy, and ensuring a sustainable progression towards a flourishing economy and an environmentally friendly production.
This website is a joint effort between the European industry federations EFFAT, EMCEF, EMF and ETUF:TCL, with the aim to strengthen the visibility and impact of trade union industrial policy on a European level, while providing information about priority areas of the federations.
No to austerity – Priority for industrial jobs and growth!
EMF calls for mobilisation on the ETUC Day of Action: 29 September 2010
The European Metalworkers’ Federation (EMF) is mobilising on 29 September, in response to the call from ETUC, to demonstrate against the excessive austerity measures being pursued by European governments simultaneously. These measures are directly threatening the fragile recovery in our industries and promoting greater deindustrialisation in Europe and a deep social recession.
EMF in Toronto for Sustainability Conference
The EMF is joining the two-day conference on economic, environment, and social dimensions of sustainability in Toronto organised by the global unions IMF and ICEM.
The conference is aimed at forging a worldwide workers' and communities' declaration for the upcoming G8 and G20 summits.
Este es el tipo de industria que Europa necesita
Video segment in Spanish and English.
La Federación Europea de Metalúrgicos ya ha trasladado a la Presidencia Española de la Unión Europea sus propuestas sobre el tipo de industria que necesita el viejo continente.
Hace unos días una delegación de los sindicatos europeos del metal, con CCOO a la cabeza, se reunió con el ministro de Industria para trasladarle sus demandas. El secretario general de la FEM, Peter Scherrer, las explica a INDUSTRIATV.
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.
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).
You can find this article and its documents in several languages on www.effat.org
Food industry: meat sectors needs to combat precarious work
At the General Assembly of the Food industry, the European 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.
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.