Join our Heat Strike workshop for Trade Union reps and members and help shape workplace activities for the Heat Strike this Summer.

As heatwaves will hit the UK in the Summer, we are preparing a call for action: Heat Strike. This will see people across the country take action to call for government and employers to:

1. Set a national maximum working temperature - When it’s too hot to work, Heat Strike. Since 2008 unions have been calling for a maximum working temperature, but the UK government still isn’t listening. We demand the UK government set a national maximum working temperature.
2. Put in place a heat wave furlow scheme - Heat waves in the UK are only set to get hotter and more frequent, working people can’t afford to bear the cost of climate breakdown and they shouldn’t have to. We demand the government and employers set up a heat wave furlow scheme.  
3. Make a climate action plan - The UK government’s climate action plan has been ruled illegally inadequate. People are feeling the heat right now. We demand the government make a plan to protect workers and vulnerable people now, and to avert the worst of climate collapse in years to come

Given the anti-Trade Union legislation in the UK and the tight regulations of strikes, the Heat Strike is not a legal strike but a Day of Action, on a similar model than the Climate Strikes. We are aiming to include a number of workplace activities Trade Unions can engage with on the Day of Action whether they are lunchtime walkout, stalls or cool stations....

WE NEED YOUR IDEAS to ensure we have activities that are achievable and effective to engage workers.

JOIN OUR WORKSHOP!