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.
Fossil Fuels & the Far Right: A primer on how racism & climate denialism go hand in hand
Photo: DANGER by Alisdare Hickson https://www.flickr.com/photos/alisdare/That COP30 taking place in Belém, Brazil, later this year, a city that is the gateway to the Amazon river, is highly significant. Can the symbolic setting precipitate a fundamental change to...
London BUIRA & ProBE webinar: Global worker organisations & environmental regulation
Wednesday 28 May 2025, 17.00 – 18.30 Via ZoomDr Coralie Guedes (University of Westminster) on Global Framework Agreements, labour agency, and environmental regulation Dr Anastasia Alexeeva (University of Westminster) on Global employee representation in...
We Demand Change Climate Workshop – read and hear the speeches
Read and hear the speechesThe text of the speech by GJA’s Denis Fernando is presented in full here.We are witnessing a serious rise in the far right Trump is in power energising fascists like the rioters from the Jan 6 movement backed by Musk, the richest man on the...
Workforce skills for decarbonising energy, especially for retrofitting buildings
Photo by Raze Solar on Unsplash A submission to the ESNZ inquiry from Greener Jobs Alliance, greenerjobsalliance.co.uk/ Authors: Ellen Robottom, Les Levidow, Tahir Latif 1. Introduction 1.1 As a trade union-based, green jobs-oriented organisation the Greener Jobs...
Retrofit for the Future
Following the launch of this desperately needed campaign at the end of March, we are publishing two articles by Ellen Robottom arguing that the campaign would be strengthened by the active involvement of trade unions,including but not confined to those with current...
We Demand Change:
Photo: www.juliamiranda.ukSummit of Resistance signals the beginning of an organised response to a society being driven backwards by all the main political parties On Saturday 29 March several thousand campaigners, activists, trade unionists and the simply...
Kemi Badenoch is a Fossil Fool
Photo by Ruth: flickr.com/photos/ruth_w/New Conservative Climate Policy. By Paul Atkin In her speech abandoning the Net Zero 2050 carbon target, Kemi Badenoch said one sensible thing, which could stand as an epitaph for her speech, her policy and her Party. “We're...
Vocational education and training (VET) for retrofit
Tanya Paquet on UnsplashThe Parliamentary Committee for Energy Security and Net Zero recently called for submissions on Workforce planning to deliver clean, secure energy. This is the submission on the need for a more coherent and climate conscious education for...
A Warm Homes Plan for Workers
Photo: Rebecca Landis flickr.com/photos/landis/By Sam Perry Green Bargaining Officer Yorkshire and Humber TUC The government’s Warm Homes Plan, promised in Labour’s 2024 manifesto, has the potential to be revolutionary. An ambitious and well-executed plan to cut...
It’s money that has stopped nuclear power, not planning problems
Photo by Talsarnau TimesBy DAVID TOKE Of all the nonsense about nuclear power that one hears, the idea that somehow it is planning problems rather than financial issues that stop its development surely takes the biscuit. The Government bats away any formal planning...
What UK school leavers do – and do not – understand about the climate crisis; and why this is a problem
Photo by Callum Shaw on UnsplashThe conclusions of the December 2024 research report into climate literacy among school leavers in England makes worrying reading. The survey conclusions are republished below. My comments are in italics. Through asking a selected...
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