The Climate Crisis is a Working Class Issue - building a year of trade union climate action

Sun 7th Sept, 6.30pm, Meeting Room 1C, Brighton Centre

The climate crisis is already here, threating the lives and livelihoods of working class people. In the year of trade union climate action, supported by TUC and starting this autumn, we urgently need to challenge the right-wing narrative of climate action as a threat to working people, making it clear it is climate breakdown which poses the real threat. We need to empower people both to take actions in their own workplaces and to join wider campaigns calling for solutions to the climate crisis which are shaped by and for the working class: climate jobs, cheap clean renewable energy and warm homes, affordable public transport and more – a movement based in global solidarity and rooted in local communities.

Speakers:

Sarah Woolley, General Secretary, BFAWU

Sarah Kilpatrick, President, NEU

Liz Wheatley, Unison

Miranda Irwin, Heat Strike

Suzanne Jeffery, CACCTU

Chair, Tahir Latif, Greener Jobs Alliance

Note - this meeting is accessible only to TUC delegates. We'll also be at the Workers Planet event earlier in the day - all welcome!