ROLE OF THE TRADE UNIONS
The #AllForClimate campaign calls on the trade unions to follow seven recommendations, so that the green transition can succeed.
Below you can read and share the recommendations and download the campaign material in several languages.
The trade union movement has a unique responsibility to ensure that no employees are left behind in the transition to sustainable workplaces and sustainable working life. We are calling on the trade unions to follow seven recommendations for a rapid and socially just transition to a carbon-neutral society.
1. TAKE THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY SERIOUSLY
2. FIGHT FOR QUALITY OF LIFE RATHER THAN WAGES
Stop pursuing higher wages for those who already have enough, and recognise that we need to distribute the earth’s limited resources more fairly. Focus instead on ensuring that everyone’s basic financial needs are met and that working life contributes to a better quality of life. Fight for meaningful jobs and workplace well-being for all.
3. PROTECT PEOPLE RATHER THAN WORKPLACES
Accept that industries and companies that damage the climate must be phased out. Negotiate to ensure financial security for those who lose their jobs, and strive for new jobs that contribute to the green transition. Engage in developing a labour market where jobs can be created independently of economic growth, for example by job sharing.
4. BUILD SUSTAINABLE SKILLS
Push for everyone, regardless of education and employment, to be trained to facilitate the transition to a carbon-neutral society in their current or future jobs. Fight for a common green retraining fund across unions and industries, for example financed with money normally earmarked for wage increases.
5. DEMAND POLITICAL ACTION
Push politicians at all levels to introduce regulations and incentives that will make sustainable working life and sustainable entrepreneurship the natural first choice for all employees and workplaces. Use strike action to enforce the demands, if necessary.
6. INFLUENCE PENSION FUNDS
Pressure pension funds to drop all investments in climate-damaging activities and to instead invest in companies contributing to the green transition. Work towards a solidary pension scheme that works without growth.
7. CREATE A NEW STORY
Inspire and support your members in the cultural transition to an everyday life with lower income and reduced carbon footprint. Support the development of economic models that respect and care for ecosystems and humans. Shape the vital debate about what sustainable working life and sustainable workplaces could look like.
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TAKE THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY SERIOUSLY
2
FIGHT FOR QUALITY OF LIFE RATHER THAN WAGES
Stop pursuing higher wages for those who already have enough, and recognise that we need to distribute the earth’s limited resources more fairly. Focus instead on ensuring that everyone’s basic financial needs are met and that working life contributes to a better quality of life. Fight for meaningful jobs and workplace well-being for all.
3
PROTECT PEOPLE RATHER THAN WORKPLACES
Accept that industries and companies that damage the climate must be phased out. Negotiate to ensure financial security for those who lose their jobs, and strive for new jobs that contribute to the green transition. Engage in developing a labour market where jobs can be created independently of economic growth, for example by job sharing.
4
BUILD SUSTAINABLE SKILLS
Push for everyone, regardless of education and employment, to be trained to facilitate the transition to a carbon-neutral society in their current or future jobs. Fight for a common green retraining fund across unions and industries, for example financed with money normally earmarked for wage increases.
5
DEMAND POLITICAL ACTION
Push politicians at all levels to introduce regulations and incentives that will make sustainable working life and sustainable entrepreneurship the natural first choice for all employees and workplaces. Use strike action to enforce the demands, if necessary.
6
INFLUENCE PENSION FUNDS
Pressure pension funds to drop all investments in climate-damaging activities and to instead invest in companies contributing to the green transition. Work towards a solidary pension scheme that works without growth.
7
CREATE A NEW STORY
Inspire and support your members in the cultural transition to an everyday life with lower income and reduced carbon footprint. Support the development of economic models that respect and care for ecosystems and humans. Shape the vital debate about what sustainable working life and sustainable workplaces could look like.
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