This blog covers the most urgent issue currently facing the Trade Union movement as regards the climate crisis.  We would encourage feedback, response articles and replies from every perspective to ensure we do justice to workers everywhere in this crucial debate. Use...

This blog covers the most urgent issue currently facing the Trade Union movement as regards the climate crisis.  We would encourage feedback, response articles and replies from every perspective to ensure we do justice to workers everywhere in this crucial debate. Use...

Photo by Mohammed Ibrahim on UnsplashThis blog covers the most urgent issue currently facing the Trade Union movement as regards the climate crisis.  We would encourage feedback, response articles and replies from every perspective to ensure we do justice to workers...

This blog covers the most urgent issue currently facing the Trade Union movement as regards the climate crisis.  We would encourage feedback, response articles and replies from every perspective to ensure we do justice to workers everywhere in this crucial debate. Use...

GKN Workers The Greener Jobs Alliance was part of the UK group that attended the ex-GKN Workers Assembly on 12 and 13 October in Florence, Italy. The delegation of 29 people from a range of union and solidarity organisations was co-ordinated by Reel News. In the...

Green shoots Image by eko pramono from Pixabay GJA has been publicising the instalments of Stuart Tannock’s research as they’ve emerged over the last year or two.  Here is the fourth part of this fascinating and comprehensive study that will provide an invaluable...

Speech at the Rally for a Just Transition outside the Treasury last week By Paul Atkin When people say “We have to make the transition to sustainable energy BUT we need to save jobs” we need to change one word in that sentence. “We have to make the transition to...

Another important climate-related debate that took place at TUC this month was Motion 19, moved by BFAWU, on the risks to the health and safety of workers of rising temperatures and advocating for trade unions to join with climate campaigners in ‘Heat Strikes’. The...

We have just published on the GJA website a blog by our editor Paul Atkin that identifies the choices facing the trade union movement as regards Just Transition, and how these choices manifested themselves in the Composite motions passed at TUC Conference 2024 (C5 and...

Photo: sarah d flickr.com/photos/tigerweet/ By Paul Atkin Passing composite 18 (see below) recognising that we need a rapid and just transition away from fossil fuels to prevent catastrophic climate breakdown at this week’s TUC Congress was a big step forward for the...