Online meeting 7 May: The Climate Crisis is a Working Class Issue - Building a Year of Trade Union Climate Action

Start: 2025-05-07 19:00:00 UTC British Summer Time (GMT+01:00)

A link to attend this virtual event will be emailed upon RSVP

Update - please register so you can get updates after the meeting, but for the convenience of late sign-ups, the Zoom link to join at 7pm is here (and on the web page after you sign up).

In 2024, the TUC voted to back a Year of Trade Union Climate Action, engaging with community and climate justice groups. It will kick off this autumn, with a key moment of global solidarity in November during the UN climate negotiations, COP30, in Brazil.

At our meeting on Wednesday 7th May, 7pm, you can hear from trade unions supporting the year of action and from grassroots campaigns on key climate issues such as fuel poverty and heat exposure at work.

Join the discussion on how we can build for a year of action from the grassroots up, in our unions, our workplaces and in our wider communities. Unions have always been at the forefront of struggle for changes that make life better for working class people. Now is our time to step up again for this ultimate struggle to protect the very conditions of life, safety and fairness for our communities and the generations to come.

We'll hear contributions from trade unionists and campaigners including Jenny Cooper, NEU NEC; Sarah Woolley, General Secretary, BFAWU; Liz Wheatley, UNISON NEC, Clara Paillard, on behalf of Unite Grassroots Climate Justice Caucus with an updated on the Heat Strike campaign; and John Whitcher, Fuel Poverty Action and GMB for a Green New Deal, speaking on the Retrofit for Future campaign.

We'll also have open discussions and break-out rooms to give a chance to pull together as many ideas as possible.

Sign up now to get joining details.

This online meeting, hosted by the Campaign against Climate Change trade union group, is part of the With Banners Held High festival, held annually in Wakefield, and this year commemorating 40 years since the end of the miners' strike.