EATS - Empowering Agri-food chain actors Through Social dialogue - Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies

EATS - Empowering Agri-food chain actors Through Social dialogue

E.A.T.S.aims at identifying, disseminating and promoting best practices related to the European Social Dialogue and industrial relations by focusing on the agri-food chain, from primary activities to product processing, in medium-large multinational companies where European Works Councils are present.

This project therefore aims not only at allowing the dissemination and sharing of those best social dialogue practices already in place before the pandemic and/or developed during it among business and trade union organisations of EU member and candidate countries, but also at developing new guidelines that can be useful to member countries for the on job management of the emergency and the definition of future work organisation methods to meet present and future challenges in the agri-food sector. By improving dialogue on best practices respectively adopted among the trade unions involved.

E.A.T.S. intends to collect, analyse and disseminate the best practices that national trade unions involved and Sectoral Social Dialogue Committees are currently putting in place in order to enhance their strengths and replicable aspects at European level and in other countries.

E.A.T.S.is a 24 month project and will follow the principles of action research.

The project will therefore aim at achieving comparative research on the practices implemented by social partners in the agri-food sector, along the whole supply chain, on their methods and results in the field of sustainability and efforts to reduce levels of informal economy. The comparative research and the consequent guidelines will become a working tool and shared heritage not only of the trade unions and of the employers' associations involved but also of every future actors of the Social Dialogue who, at the end of the project, can be inspired by it.

This will be done through:

preparatory meetings of the working group;

5 national workshops;

1 final conference;

a desk search;

the drafting and co-design of the guidelines.

Participants:

Lucio Pisacane,
Serena Tagliacozzo,
Marco Cellini,
Paola Trussardi,
Christian Crescimbene.

Participating institutions:

IT - Make national CISL

IT - National Research Council

ES - FEDERACION DE INDUSTRIA, CONSTRUCTION AND AGRO DE LA UNION GENERAL DE TRABAJADORES