TUC Congress
2018 Greener Jobs Alliance Briefing:
Full
spectrum’ of unions support motions on climate change, energy and a Just
Transition Delegates to the TUC’s 150th annual Congress will debate six motions
https://bit.ly/2wHjYWN setting out new directions for TUC policy on climate
change, energy and a Just Transition.
The Greener
Jobs Alliance welcome the GMB’s proposal for a TUC-led conference in their
motion, Just transition and energy workers’ voice. But we have a duty to
express our concern that this motion limits input on TUC policy from other
unions, making ‘energy unions’ views ‘paramount’. Although the proposed
conference on Just Transition is long overdue, when it comes to fighting
climate change, every union should have a voice: in the fire and rescue
services, food manufacturer, rail transport, public services, the NHS. No less
than nine unions have motions or amendments on climate change and a just
transition at TUC 2018.
Motions in
brief
01:
Industrial strategy: an economy for the many Unite’s motion calls on the TUC to
campaign for an industrial strategy that includes: • Strengthening collective
bargaining in the workplace and across industrial sectors. • Investment in UK
manufacturing, electric vehicles, construction and infrastructure. • Support
for high-quality apprenticeships. ASLEF’s amendment links industrial policy to
a just transition: ‘Support for investment and strategic planning to ensure UK
industry is at the forefront of a just transition to a low-carbon economy and
the fight against climate change, including by means of an integrated transport
strategy.’
07 Just
transition and energy workers’ voice In support of gas industry members, the
GMB motion argues that ‘lower carbon gas’ is an essential for the UK’s secure,
affordable and lower carbon energy supply. Backed by Prospect, the motion,
‘congratulates GMB, Prospect, UNISON and Unite for calling a just transition
conference to ask members employed in energy precisely what they, their
communities and industries want and need from an energy sector of the
future…The views of the workers affected, as expressed through these trade
unions, should be paramount to development of all TUC policies on energy,
industrial strategy and climate change.’
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