10 December, 2009Announcing a labour approach to tackling Climate Change, the Global Unions have produced a joint publication, "Green Growth for jobs and social justice"
GLOBAL: On the eve of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 15) taking place from December 7 to 18, 2009 in Copenhagen the Global Unions have released a new publication "Getting the world to work: Green Growth for jobs and social justice".
Following the first joint publication 'Global Union Strategies for Recovery' produced earlier this year which discusses union responses to the economic crisis, the second edition, 'Green Growth for jobs and social justice', highlights union approaches to tackling climate change. The publication contains a mix of shared principles and sectoral perspectives from Global Unions that are demanding a focus on workers' and communities' interests when tackling the issue of Climate Change.
IMF together with the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM) made their joint contribution to the publication providing metalworkers views in 'Cutting emissions - transforming jobs' edited by the IMF and ICEM General Secretaries Jyrki Raina and Manfred Warda.
The web and print quality publication can be downloaded from the Global Unions' website http://www.global-unions.org/spip.php?article306 .
As part of the Climate Change discussion on December 16, together with the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM), European Metalworkers' Federation (EMF) and the European Mine, Chemical and Energy Workers' Federation (EMCEF), IMF will be holding an event at the World of Work (WoW) pavilion on cutting emissions and transforming industrial jobs.
Speakers include Poul Nyrup Rasmussen (former-Danish Prime Minister and President of European Socialists and representatives of the South African government delegation to COP 15. For more details download the flyer here.