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...
Model Motions for Labour Party Conference
Photo: commons.wikimedia.org We are publishing motions from Labour Green New Deal and one drafted by us that is being circulated by the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy (CLPD). We emailed SERA with a view to publishing any motion they had drafted too, but have not...
Raw power: considering the pros and cons of Labour’s ‘clean energy’ plans
Photo by Ma Ti on UnsplashThe Boris sideshow may reinforce the impression that politics has descended into farce, but even ostensibly more serious issues such as a Labour government’s proposed energy policy draw responses from ‘caving in to Just Stop Oil’ to ‘selling...
That £28 billion. We need a bang, not a whimper
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash This is the way the world ends Not with a bang, with a whimper. TS Elliot. The Hollow Men. Rachel Reeves's logic in rowing back from Labour's £28 billion a year investment plan for green transition is flawed in three vital respects...
People need and deserve more than gesture politics
Photo by Eelco Böhtlingk on Unsplash At the Greener Jobs Alliance, a lot of the work we do with local authorities on issues like green skills, retrofit and insulation, and air quality in the workplace, rests upon our good relations with Labour-controlled councils who...
Averting Catastrophe: Crisis, Class and Climate Change
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash By Feyzi Ismail Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet. By Matthew Huber. London: Verso, 2022. 320 pp., £16.99 (paper). ISBN: 9781788733885. Last year, the five...
Support the Heathrow security strikers!
Heathrow Terminals 1, 2, 3 tube station sign: Creative Commons By Sacha Ismail, Safe Landing https://www.safe-landing.org On 7 June, Unite the Union announced that its members working in security at Heathrow Airport would strike for 31 days over the summer as part of...
What a Just Transition in the North Sea looks like
New Jobs for Old! Photo: Creative Commons New oil and gas exploration is incompatible with stopping climate breakdown. The trade union movement will not defend its members jobs - or their future - by digging in on energy sources that will doom us unless we doom them....
Climate & Ecology Bill: Uniting Solutions
Photo: Zero Hour The first page of the Greener Jobs Alliance website makes clear what’s needed to face the challenges posed by ever increasing harm to the climate - uniting campaigns and bringing together the solutions. I work with the campaign group, Zero Hour, on...
National Conservatism’s climate deniers
Photo: Markus Spiske on Unsplash By Philip Pearson The Tories National Conservatism gathering in London (May 15 2023), with its shivering echoes of National Socialism, brings together a high-level platform of global warming deniers and sceptics drawn from the heart of...
New TUC video: plan for heatwaves, cut energy bills, & take climate action!
The weather’s turning warmer – have you got a heatwave plan at work? The new TUC video and leaflet shows how union reps and activists can plan for heatwaves and cold snaps, save their workplace money on energy bills, and take climate action at work. Watch the video...
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