An impatient Trade Union Assembly in Rio on 11-13 June (attended by an ITF delegation) adopted a statement which represents an important step forward, in which it realises “that our current profit-driven production and consumption model, identified as the source of rising social inequalities and environmental degradation, must be replaced if a truly sustainable development is to be achieved”.
ITF delegates from Latin America, Europe and Africa attend the trade union workshop at Rio+20 yesterday. Delegates emphasised the need for climate change to be approached as a class issue, the need to struggle for public ownership and control of energy and the need to build alliances in order to address the economic, social and environmental crisis.
The TUC’s report of the UN climate change talks in Durban last December highlights the outcomes of the discussions including the $100 billion green climate fund for developing nations to be mobilised by 2020 and the TUC’s involvement in the ITUC’s World of Work pavilion and the One Million Climate Jobs Conference
The ITF ran a one-day workshop on mobilising responses to climate change for IFWEA affiliates during their 21st conference in Cape Town on 29 November 2011. Over 80 people attended. The main outcome from the workshop was a proposal for the development of educational materials on climate change that will form part of IFWEA’s new online academy for labour educators.
Day two of the climate change and transport workers seminar in Durban (1-2 December 2011) was opened by Asbjørn Wahl, chair of the ITF working group on climate change. Session 4: Understanding employment issues Jane Barrett presented the SATAWU research paper, which… Continue Reading →
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