CCCTU Conference Resolution

Conference fully endorses the aims of the Campaign against Climate Change (CCC)*. We recognise that trade unions have a central role to play, both in developing just and equitable solutions to climate change and also in building a mass movement around the issue. We therefore urge all trade unions to use their full [...]

Campaign Against Climate Change TU Conference Report

This report is from Greenman’s blog.
I attended the CACCTU conference yesterday and it was one of the best day conferences I have attended. 250-300 people from a variety of Unions, political and environmental groups took part in the day and (despite some wrangling over the lack of time to debate and amend the final resolution) [...]

Climate change conference: fight to save the planet is a trade union issue

A successful Campaign Against Climate Change trade union conference in London last Saturday attracted 300 people writes Socialist Worker.
Members of many different unions took part in a highly politicised conference, where speaker after speaker pointed out that tackling climate change involves dramatically changing the way our society is organised.
Frances O’Grady, the deputy general secretary of [...]

Trade Unionists Must Be the Agents of Human Survival - An Interview with Roy Wilkes

Roy Wilkes is secretary of the organising committee of the Campaign against Climate Change Trade Union Conference that took place in London on February 9. He was interviewed by Richard Searle of Red Pepper magazine. 
RS: Although there’s universal agreement now that Climate Change is happening as a result of human activity, why is there no [...]