Swedish Transport Workers’ Union talk about their experience at the ETUC’s seminar on sustainable mobility in urban areas.
Dockers from ITF affiliates attending the ITF Africa maritime conference in Madagascar (16-18 October) came together to discuss climate change and other environmental issues in ports.
Asbjørn Wahl, chair of the ITF working group on climate change and Alana Dave, ITF education officer and coordinator of the ITF programme on climate change, attended Energy Emergency, Energy Transition, a global trade union roundtable organised by Cornell Global Labor Institute
30 transport trade unionists came together in Barbados for the ITF’s first climate change seminar in the Caribbean. The seminar led to the formation of the ITF Caribbean climate change network.
The ITF’s first seminar on climate change in the Pacific will be held in Kiribati over the next 3 days. Unions from Kiribati (KIOSU, KOFU and KCTU), Tuvalu Overseas Seafarers’ Union and Fiji Maritime Workers’ Association will be coming together… Continue Reading →
There will be no social justice without environmental protection.
Comencemos con 3 datos: 40 mil millones en transacciones financieras en el año 2010. Promover la inversión en los distintos países de al menos el 2% del PIB en sectores que reduzcan el impacto ambiental de la producción y generan empleos verdes y decentes. Exigencia a los gobiernos de que adopten medidas para que no lleguemos a 1’5ºC de aumento de temperatura media del planeta.
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 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.
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