Agricultural products

15/08/2009

Farmers protest

Over 30,000 past or current employees of 29 companies are on strike at the moment, Serbia’s Alliance of Independent Unions reports.
As many as 8,300 are protesting unpaid wages, while around 5,000 are striking to demand overdue severance payments, the spokesperson for the union alliance, Mara Djordjevic, told Tanjug news agency.

10/03/2009

Consistent Community Policy for the Sugar Sector

Inconsistent strategies in the different services of the European Commission put the future of most of the companies of the European sugar industry at stake and are sentencing the sugar workers to perpetual restructuring.

COP 15 - European metalworkers on the road from Copenhagen

For the European Metalworkers Federation climate change is a dangerous reality which demands a social response at international as well as European, national and regional/local and company levels. We believe that a drive towards new industrial strategies based on low carbon technologies and products can offer opportunities but also challenges for the future of industrial workplaces in Europe.

EFFAT's view on sustainable development

Sustainable development seeks to "meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” in the sense of balance between economic, social and environmental elements. Still, increasingly rapid global changes, from the melting of the icecaps to growing energy and resource demand, are challenging this objective.