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Some UK trade unions have been accused of adopting a “divisive” approach that risked slowing down the transition to a low-carbon economy after they agreed on a lobbying strategy to ensure workers in the fossil fuel industries have a decent future.
The concerns were raised after the Trade Union Congress (TUC) voted on a motion setting how unions will work to ensure that workers in fossil-fuel-intensive sectors have access to decent and sustainable jobs when mines and plants are forced to close — a concept often shorthanded to the term “just transition”.
The motion states that the TUC “should develop a political and lobbying strategy” for a just transition to a low-carbon economy “led by the voices and experiences of energy unions and their members”.
