EFFAT is the European Federation of Food, Agriculture, and Tourism Trade Unions, also representing domestic workers. As a European Trade Union Federation representing 120 national trade unions from 35 European countries, EFFAT defends the interests of more than 22 million workers towards the European Institutions, European employers associations and transnational companies. EFFAT is an autonomous European Trade Union Federation. As a member of the ETUC, EFFAT promotes its members’ interests in all European interprofessional issues jointly and with strength. As a regional organisation within the IUF, EFFAT also defends its members’ interests world- and sector-wide. In recent years EFFAT has set up European Works Councils in more than 100 transnational groups and has a successful social dialogue underway in – among others – the agriculture, hotel & restaurant, contract catering, sugar, and tobacco sectors.