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“Reparations Now! Climate Justice Now!”
Date: Saturday 23 August 2025 1200hrs - 2000hrs Venue: We are 336, Brixton Road, SW9 7AA (Nearest Station Brixton) Contact: Mel Mullings 07718 645817 As part of the Trade Union Year of Climate Action, this year’s RMT Reparations Conference 2025 will challenge us to...
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...
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...
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