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. We want active support from as many national trade unions as possible – but a really powerful year of action can only be built from the grassroots up.

Latest updates - NEU conference has passed a climate motion including a commitment to support members in organising workplace events during the year of action (full text on p3 of the latest Greener Jobs Alliance newsletter).

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Meeting on 7th May: The Climate Crisis is a Working Class Issue - Building a Year of Trade Union Climate Action

At our meeting on Wednesday 7th May 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.

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.

This online meeting is being held as 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.