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.
At the Crossroads: Environmentalism, Peace and Hope for the Future
Globally, the best estimate we have is that militaries are responsible for 5.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. The US military is the largest institutional emitter of greenhouse gases on Earth, generating an estimated 636 million metric tons of CO₂ equivalent...
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...
An initial response to the announced closures at Port Talbot
Photo by Nick Russill on Unsplash The news that Tata Steel has taken the decision to close the facilities at Port Talbot is devastating for the workers at those facilities, for the local communities that are based around the steel industry, and for the climate. We...
Important research published on education in the Labour-Climate movement
Image by Andrea from Pixabay GJA would like to draw your attention to some excellent and vital research on trade unions, worker education and climate crisis in the UK being carried out by Stuart Tannock at the UCL Institute of Education. Two articles have been...
GJA hosts open meeting and discussion of events at COP28
On 9th January, GJA was extremely happy to host a special open meeting to discuss the previous month’s COP28 in Dubai. Jenny Cooper, who, along with Tony Wright, UNISON, had been the two U.K. trade union attendees, gave a superb and informative report back. It was...
New year, new struggle: the transformation must begin in 2024
Photo by Mick HolderResolution for 2024: move the climate debate on. As COP28 has amply demonstrated, it simply isn’t enough to wait for the elites to come around to the realisation that the impact of climate change is far greater on other people than it is on them. ...
Proposal: a campaign for free public transport in London
Photo by inspira studio on Unsplash We have discussed this proposal in the Stop the Silvertown Tunnel coalition, and now invite organisations, groups and individuals to join us in this initiative. We hope to have a get-together on this early in 2024. To indicate...
GJA writes to energy union GS’s on a transition to renewables and justice for workers
Photo by Anton Dmitriev on UnsplashFollowing a number of informal exchanges with TU reps and officials in the energy sector, and given the variety of different emphases given to a transition to renewable energy across the union movement, GJA has written to the six...
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