{"id":18842,"date":"2019-09-10T16:23:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T15:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=18842"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:55:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:55:34","slug":"back-school-climate-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=18842","title":{"rendered":"Back school climate strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Unite assistant general secretary Steve Turner called on trade unions to back the school climate change strikes on 20 September at the TUC congress in Brighton today (10 September).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Moving motion 2 on climate change and a just transition he also demanded that workers are up-skilled or re-skilled with no loss of pay or undermining of terms and conditions in the transition to a green economy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Turner said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bCongress, how proud can we be of our children, knowing it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s their future at stake \u00e2\u20ac\u201c taking to the streets, just as they did in 2010 in the fight against austerity, to demand the urgent action that is desperately needed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bAnd as trade unionists, as socialists seeking that better, fairer world, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s our duty to stand proudly alongside them in this fight.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThat is why this composite includes the demand that we take whatever solidarity action we can on 20 September, the day of their next school strike. If we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be seen as irrelevant \u00e2\u20ac\u201c not as allies in their fight and not an integral part of their future.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Turner added that trade unionists are at the centre of the debate on the transition to low carbon practices in the energy, automotive, steel, ceramics and construction industries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Sustainable jobs\u00c2\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bAnd in that debate we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll ensure our members are up-skilled or re-skilled and transitioned to new, sustainable, local jobs with no loss of pay or undermining of terms and conditions. Supporting them, their families and wider communities,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Turner reminded Congress that the stakes when it comes to the climate emergency are high.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOur country is facing a choice that \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in this and so many areas \u00e2\u20ac\u201c will have global ramifications,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 Turner said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt was Jeremy Corbyn who moved in Parliament that we recognise we are living in a climate emergency and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister that represents our best chance at securing the industrial and political transformation we need with the collective voice of working people at its heart.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe alternative is too dire to think about.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite assistant general secretary Steve Turner called on trade unions to back the school climate change strikes on 20 September at the TUC congress in Brighton today (10 September).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[588,1225,733,1221],"wps_subtitle":"Unite AGS Steve Turner calls for unions to support school climate strikers","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18842"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25024,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18842\/revisions\/25024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}