Blog & Debate
Welcome to the GJA blog space. Here we host critical debates on the key issues we face, as an organisation, as a movement of workers, and as a society.
Open letter: demand a Just Transition for North Sea oil and gas workers
Photo: www.flickr.com/photos/joiseyshowaa/ GJA is one of many organisations that have signed up to an open letter to the leaders of all political parties, calling for a rapid transition from fossil fuels that protects the workers in the sector. The letter states:...
NEU Highlights Climate Crisis in its General Election Manifesto
The NEU has added the climate crisis to its manifesto for the General Election. This sentence has been added under section 1 funding This crisis (of school funding) coincides with an urgent need to decarbonise the school estate and ensure climate resilience and...
Mythbusters #3 “It’s gonna cost you?”
Photo by Tanya Prodaan on Unsplash In the PM election debate Rishi Sunak said, and I paraphrase, “I am not going to impose thousands of pounds of costs on you to rip out your boiler, change your car, convert your home” But from next year, it should save you money....
Building Climate Literacy into Skills Training – the Canadian experience
Photo: Wolfgang Eckert from PixabayOn Tuesday 14 May, GJA held an open meeting at which we were very pleased to welcome Dr John Calvert, from Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, to give what proved to be a fascinating talk on his work with Canada’s Building...
International Workers Memorial Day and a sense of perspective about the climate crisis
Photo: www.flickr.com/photos/pnglife/ April 28 was International Workers Memorial Day, and GJA is very pleased to reproduce the speech below, made at an event in Leeds by Sam Perry, Green Bargaining Officer for Yorkshire & Humber TUC Comrades, We’re here to...
Myth busters 2. Was it really hotter in the Medieval Warm Period?
Woman clothed in sun - original image from rawpixel-id-14246134 As we move into a period in which the powers that be will be retreating and retrenching on climate policy, we can expect discredited arguments and factoids to be churned out with dreary regularity; so...
Mythbuster 1. “Phew! What a scorcher!” Overheating is good for you?
Image by G.C. from Pixabay As we move into a period in which the powers that be will be retreating and retrenching on climate policy, we can expect discredited arguments and factoids to be churned out with dreary regularity; so that anyone who does not want to...
A Different Approach – A Green Transition (Part 2)
Photo by Green House Think Tank This is the second part of Jonathan’s discussion of a new approach to a Green Transition, as presented at the GJA AGM on 13 February. We need a green transition, that is labour- not material- or technology-intensive, increasing how the...
Why do green jobs plans need a different politics and economics? (Part 1)
Photo by Green House Think Tank The Greener Jobs Alliance was very pleased to invite Jonathan Essex to speak at our AGM on 13 February. Here Jonathan expands on the ideas in that presentation in a two-part blog posting, focusing, in this first part, on the urgent...
Clean Air in Tooting Market Campaign Launched
Wandsworth Unions, BWTUC and the Trade Union Clean Air Network (TUCAN) launched a campaign for clean air in Tooting markets with a photocall outside the market at 11am on Wednesday 14th February as part of the TUC Love Unions week. We want to work together with the...
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