Climate change: model union resolution

Here is the text of a model resolution if you want to get your union branch to support the December 6th climate change demonstration or the Campaign Against Climate Change Trade Union Conference (CCCTU) in March 2009 This branch recognises: That Climate Change is an issue of increasing concern, with the latest scientific evidence showing [...]

Medway Trades Council supports Kingsnorth protest

Medway TUC motion on climate change   That this Trades Council acknowledges that climate change is a reality. This is based on the weight of scientific evidence that the earths’ temperature is rising – leading the polar ice caps to begin melting, which is causing sea levels to rise. We have also seen widespread de-forestation, [...]

Lecturers’ Union UCU will press colleges and universities to do more on climate change

The University and College Union (UCU) will press UK colleges and universities to do more to prevent damaging climate change. At its recent annual Congress, UCU union delegates called for all branches of the union – the UK’s tenth biggest – to elect environment reps and to engage with employers to develop sustainable work practices, [...]

Model Motion in support of the Campaign against Climate Change (CCC)

This model resolution can be amended for your own organisation. This meeting notes: 1) That the level of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere is up one third on that of pre-industrial times: a level higher than it has been for at least 400 000 years. 2) The evidence that human activity is changing the climate is now [...]