As part of the Campaign against Climate Change, we work with UK trade unions at a national and grassroots level. We believe the labour movement is a crucial part of the fight to avoid catastrophic climate breakdown and achieve a just transformation.
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Great article by @claraunite.bsky.social with tons of useful resources linked.
"The climate crisis is a working class and trade union issue that cannot wait"
Trade unions should be talking loudly about the workforce needed to tackle climate breakdown and help the economy - including making and installing heat pumps. And making the case for the investment needed.
TUC video from last year...
"Why does Nigel Farage want me to lose my job?"
Andrea Egan, General Secretary of @unison.org.uk, the UK's largest trade union, says a new Labour leader must centre the needs of the working class - including tackling the climate crisis.
"To not do so would be a complete abandonment of Labour’s historic purpose."
@andreaegangs.bsky.social
That would be the green economy that Reform want to scrap...
Worried about what AI means for your job? You're not alone.
On 27 June in Manchester we'll bring together trade unionists with campaigners on climate impacts of data centres, those organising against uses of AI in war and surveillance & more.
Get your ticket now!
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Campaign against Climate Change trade union group
Campaign against Climate Change trade union group
Plus, and this is important, climate change is still a thing. More drilling means more emissions, more climate impacts, and an even harder task working with other countries not to drill their own reserves.
Campaign against Climate Change trade union group
Again, the post 2000 history of North Sea oil and gas is one of declining production and volatile, but still declining tax receipts to the point where some years it has cost the exchequer money.
Campaign against Climate Change trade union group
Campaign against Climate Change trade union group
Campaign against Climate Change trade union group
The UK may not be planning data centres on such a vast scale as the US, but our government wants a data centre boom to "mainline AI into the veins of the UK" & fast-track the planning process.
If you're anywhere near Manchester, join us on 27 June to find out more!
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James Murray
James Murray
From Gaza to your workplace...
Find out about the AI arms race (both literal and metaphorical) and how it's affecting our jobs and endangering our climate.
27 June, Manchester
This is Not Inevitable: Standing up to AI and Big Tech
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Today is World Environment Day. Clara Paillard looks at the impact on working people and surveys the key organisations campaigning on this. On World Environment Day, is there much that the labour m…
