European Federation of Agriculture, Food and Tourism Unions
The European Federation of Agriculture, Food and Tourism Unions , engl. European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions (EFFAT) is a European trade union federation based in Brussels . It represents 120 unions in 35 countries with a total membership of more than 2.6 million members. EFFAT is the European regional structure of the International Food Workers Union . EFFAT is a member of the European Trade Union Confederation .
EFFAT was created in 2000 by merging the two European trade union federations EAL-IUF and EFA.
The 4th EFFAT Congress took place on 20./21. November 2014 in Vienna .
President is Therese Guovelin (HRF, Sweden), General Secretary Harald Wiedenhofer.
Member unions in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
Affiliates are
- from Germany: the IG Bauen-Agrar-Umwelt and the food-gourmet-restaurants union ,
- from Austria: the public service union (GÖD) , the union of private employees, printing, journalism, paper , the union PRO-GE and vida .
- from Switzerland: the Unia .
literature
- Hans-Wolfgang Platzer, Torsten Müller, The global and European trade union federations: Handbook and analyzes of transnational trade union politics, Berlin (Ed. Sigma) 2009, half volume. 2, 479 p. Table of contents , there in particular p. 671–690
Web links
- EFFAT homepage , accessed on March 21, 2018
- Articles of Association , accessed on March 29, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ EFFAT "Tasks" page , accessed on March 21, 2018
- ↑ "Tasks" page , accessed April 1, 2018
- ↑ Page "Congress Results" , accessed on March 29, 2018
- ↑ EFFAT News EFFAT Congress 2014 , accessed on March 29, 2018
- ^ Page "Members" of EFFAT , accessed on March 21, 2018