EFBWW

EFBWW urges the EU Fair Labour Mobility Package to strengthen workers’ rights and enforcement. Voluntary measures fail in high-risk sectors like construction. Binding rules, limits on subcontracting and joint liability are needed to prevent abuse and ensure fair competition.

🚫👻We are deconstructing some of the myths that are being used to create the idea that no change to the rules on subcontracting is necessary.
Limiting subcontracting chains is necessary and urgent

#timetoact #limitsubcontracting

✊Workers are mobilising in Strasbourg for a decisive moment in EU labour policy

📢 The moment to act is now
Join us to #StopExploitation !

@effat.org @etuc-ces.bsky.social @etf-europe.bsky.social

We call on the European Parliament to support the own-initiative report on subcontracting and labour intermediaries & on the European Commission to immediately propose a Directive!

#STOPEXPLOTATION #LIMITSUBCONTRACTING
@effat.org @etuc-ces.bsky.social @etf-europe.bsky.social

YouTube video by EFBWW EFBWW Ahmed Mahmoud’s testimony

Ahmed Mahmoud’s testimony speaks for itself
#stopexplotation #limitsubcontracting

@effat.org @etuc-ces.bsky.social @etf-europe.bsky.social

#QualityJobsAct requires quality rules!
🔹 Binding legislation #LimitSubcontracting
🔹 Stronger enforcement
🔹 High OSH standards across the entire internal market

YouTube video by EFBWW EFBWW The impact of subcontracting on workers

Ahead of the vote at the EP on the INI Report on Subcontracting & Labour Intermediation here is once again a video explaining why we need an ambitious EU Directive on Subcontracting & Labour Intermediation
#stopexplotation #limitsubcontracting
@effat.org @etuc-ces.bsky.social @etf-europe.bsky.social

@etui.bsky.social & @etuc-ces.bsky.social

Final Conference of the EU co-funded Step-Up: Strengthening and organising collective bargaining, more power/tools for workers project

🔹 Presenting the project deliverables
🔹 Exchanging experiences
🔹 Engaging in discussion on organising, trade union cooperation and strengthening EWCs

EFBWW EWC & Company Policy Coordination Group met for a strategic exchange on coordination & future priorities
On the agenda
🔹Company & EWC developments
🔹The revised EU Directive on EWCs
🔹Digitalisation & AI
🔹Sustainability reporting & due diligence
🔹Step-up EU co-funded project

International Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the 1945 liberation of Auschwitz and commemorates millions murdered by the Nazi regime.
It warns against rising authoritarianism. The EFBWW commits to defending democracy and will visit Auschwitz-Birkenau in April 2026. Never Forget.

📢Our GS, Tom Deleu, explains one of the problems of abusive subcontracting:

Workers signing contracts that they don’t understand.
Workers who don’t even know who their boss is.
Who’s the boss?

⏰Time to ACT!

Limit subcontracting!⛓️

#timetoact #limitsubcontracting
👉https://bit.ly/45u1BCP

📢Today we hear Per-Olof Sjoo from our Swedish affiliate GS Facket

More and more cases of exploited workers. No salary, no accommodation, failed promises.

⏰ Time to Act!

Limit subcontracting ⛓️

#timetoact #limitsubcontracting

👉https://bit.ly/45u1BCP

📢Vasyl Andreyev, from our Ukrainian affiliate Профспілка будівельників України Profbud

For a sustainable reconstruction of Ukraine, with social dialogue, good working conditions and direct jobs.

⏰ Time to Act!
Limit subcontracting ⛓️

#timetoact #limitsubcontracting

👉 bit.ly/45u1BCP

✊The EFBWW recalls once again that workers' rights can never be seen as a burden.

Our campaign to limit subcontracting is back on the streets! @europarl.europa.eu @ec.europa.eu :

⏰ Time to Act!

Limit subcontracting! ⛓️

#timetoact #limitsubcontracting
👉 bit.ly/45u1BCP

📢Giulia Bartoli from our Italian affiliate @Fillea Cgil :

More workers injured, more fatal accidents at work.

⏰ Time to Act!

Limit subcontracting ⛓️

#timetoact #limitsubcontracting

👉 bit.ly/45u1BCP

📢Kenneth Lund, from our Swedish affiliate @unionen.bsky.social

Underpayment or no payment of overtime, work for longer hours, bogus self-employment.

⏰Time to Act!
Limit subcontracting ⛓️
#timetoact #limitsubcontracting
👉 bit.ly/45u1BCP

📢Albert Scheiblauer from our Austrian affiliate @Gewerkschaft Bau-Holz:

Workers suddenly realising that their social security contributions were not paid and that their company had just vanished.

⏰Time to Act!
Limit subcontracting!⛓️

#timetoact #limitsubcontracting
bit.ly/45u1BCP

📢Jean-Marc Candille from our French affiliate @cfdt.fr:

More workers injured, more fatal accidents at work.
⏰ Time to Act!
Limit subcontracting ⛓️

#timetoact #limitsubcontracting
👉 bit.ly/45u1BCP

📢Carsten Burckhardt from our German affiliate @igbau.bsky.social :

More injured workers, more deadly accidents. It is unbearable!

⏰ Time to Act!
Limits on subcontracting must be decided now!⛓️

#timetoact #limitsubcontracting
👉 bit.ly/45u1BCP

📢Jakub Kus from our Polish affiliate Związek Zawodowy Budowlani

Underpayment or no payment of overtime, work for longer hours, bogus self-employment.

⏰ Time to Act!
Limit subcontracting ⛓️

#timetoact #limitsubcontracting

👉 bit.ly/45u1BCP

📢Today we hear Gijs Lokhorst form our Dutch affiliate @CNV

More and more cases of exploited workers. No salary, no accommodation, failed promises.

⏰ Time to Act!
Limit subcontracting ⛓️

#timetoact #limitsubcontracting

bit.ly/45u1BCP

📢Today we hear our Turkish affiliate Ramazan Agar from @YOL-IS

Workers signing contracts that they don’t even understand.
Workers who don’t even know who their boss is.
Who’s the boss?

⏰Time to ACT!
Limit subcontracting!⛓️

#timetoact #limitsubcontracting

👉https://bit.ly/45u1BCP

📢Hege Espe from our Norwegian affiliate @fellesforbundet :

More and more cases of exploited workers. No salary, no accommodation, failed promises.

⏰Time to Act!
Limit subcontracting ⛓️

#timetoact #limitsubcontracting

👉https://bit.ly/45u1BCP

🎄The EFBWW wishes you a relaxing break with your friends and family. We look forward to meet again in 2026 full of energy to continue our work together.
Because together we are stronger. ✊💪

📢We are hiring!

Communication officer

🗓️ Deadline for Application: 31 December 2025

More details here 👉 bit.ly/48JfcLt

📢Jesmond Marshall from @GWU explains one of the consequences of long and complex subcontracting chains:

More workers injured, more fatal accidents at work.

⏰Time to Act!
Limit subcontracting ⛓️

#timetoact #limitsubcontracting

👉https://bit.ly/45u1BCP

📢Pierre Cuppens @cscbiesyndicat.bsky.social:

Workers at a company realised that their social security contributions had not been paid and that their company had obviously disappeared.

⏰Time to Act!
Let’s work together to limit subcontracting ⛓️
#timetoact #limitsubcontracting
👉 bit.ly/45u1BCP

Additionally, the document underlines that public contracts should not be awarded to companies that systematically infringe core workers’ rights or collective agreements.

⏰ @ec.europa.eu , Time to Act!

#timetoact #limitsubcontracting

👉https://bit.ly/45u1BCP

The EESC also considers that public contracts must be awarded on the most economically advantageous basis, while emphasising the importance of non-price criteria, as quality, innovation, environmental, sustainability and social considerations, especially workers’ rights and collective agreements.