El cambio climático no es una amenaza del futuro, ya se está llevando a cabo y está aquí; es causado por el hombre, y las consecuencias pueden ser catastróficas.
Asbjørn Wahl puts forward ten points on a trade union strategy against climate change. 1. Climate change is not a threat of the future, it is already happening. 2. The climate threat will have widespread implications for social development. 3. Because measures to combat climate change will require great changes in society, we face a major social struggle.
It was the week that saw the biggest global action on climate change ever. Our guest blogger: David Hansen-Miller, ITF strategic researcher, reports from New York. “I spent a long weekend in NYC working with Trade Unions for Energy Democracy. On… Continue Reading →
Doing something about it is not all about sacrifice. Building a clean energy economy and making our communities and infrastructure more resilient give us the opportunity to rebuild our economy. As rising temperatures have attacked our environment, our economy has lost good jobs and replaced them with poverty jobs. The two problems are connected – each stemming from policies that put profit ahead of people – and the solution is the same.
The ITF and affiliates are attending the people’s climate march on 21 September in New York. Find out why unions should get involved and let us know if you will be attending.
Members of the Swedish Transport Workers’ Union attended the people’s climate parliament in Sweden to put pressure on politicians to include climate change as a focus in the election debates and to show that there is still strong opinion on the issue.
I am proud to belong to an organisation like the ITF. Together with many of its affiliates, it has contributed strongly to giving thousands and thousands of workers a better life.
En no pocas ocasiones nos encontramos ante la dicotomía sobre si la defensa del empleo ha de estar por encima de la protección del medio ambiente, sobre todo en determinados sectores productivos que tienen sobre sí esa mácula de contaminación, predación de recursos naturales o riesgos concretos y directos para la salud de la ciudadanía
Around 1,000 public transport workers from 40 states gathered in Washington DC, USA on 20 May to demand more investment in metros and buses in the country’s cities and towns. At the rally, leaders of two ITF affiliates – the… Continue Reading →
Climate change 2014: impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability The IPCC’s latest report on the impacts of climate change has been described as the most comprehensive to date. These impacts include a high risk of flooding, sea-level rise, changes to crop yields,… Continue Reading →
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