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.
Chris Hinchliff MP on Housing, Planning and Climate Change
Image: Craigyhill Housing Estate b y Wilson Adams, CC BY-SA 2.0Centre for the Study of the Production of the Built Environment (ProBE), University of Westminster Symposium on Sustainability, Equity and Labour, 10 July 2025 At ProBE’s annual research symposium, the...
TUC Climate debates – addendum
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...
Big step forward at TUC – Port Talbot and Grangemouth show how urgently needed this is
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...
Myth Buster #4: Six lessons about flooding and flood resilience
Photo taken by the author The risk of flooding is increasing as the climate warms. In the June edition of the GJA newsletter (#61) we highlighted the campaign in Lowestoft for adequate flood protection. Here Dr Jessica Fox, Senior Flood Risk Officer for Hull City...
GJA Statement on the abuse of the law to imprison JSO activists
Photo: Alisdare Hickson flickr.com/photos/alisdare/ The Greener Jobs Alliance is appalled at the record prison sentences handed out to five Just Stop Oil activists by a judge. We believe this is a miscarriage of justice and represents an assault on civil liberties...
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...
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