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Politicians attending the Porto Social Summit this week must understand that social justice and climate action go hand in hand and are key to preventing the loss of a generation, writes Tea Jarc and Adélaïde Charlier.
Tea Jarc is President of the Youth Committee of the European Trade Union Confederation. Adélaïde Charlier is a youth climate activist.
COVID-19 has marked our young adulthoods. We’ll look back at it and see months trapped at home, jobs lost, education turned upside down, travel banned, grief. It’s changed the course of our adolescence and young adulthood so much that it would be easy to focus forever on it.
EU Leaders Pledge Brussels Role In Fight Against Poverty By Thomas CABRAL with Alex PIGMAN in Brussels
05/07/21 AT 8:15 PM
EU leaders stressed on Friday the importance of fighting poverty and inequality as the continent emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic, but member states remain divided about Brussels role in rebuilding a fair economy.
The heads of the EU institutions agreed an action plan with stakeholders from labour and civil society, before heading to dinner with most of the 27 member state leaders ahead of Saturday s European summit. We are going to transform Europe s economic governance, thanks to this action plan, the model will be more balanced, more fair. a better Europe, host Antonio Costa, the socialist prime minister of Portugal, declared.
IndustriAll Europe presents its demands in anticipation of next month’s publication of the revitalised European industrial strategy. Accelerating climate action and digitalisation need concrete answers now. Inequalities within and between countries must be tackled so ‘no one will be left behind’. We cannot afford further delays of the new strategy.
The canaries in the mine
Representing seven million manufacturing, mining and energy sector workers across Europe, industriAll European Trade Union’s members are not only contributing actively to the green and digital transitions with their daily work, but they are also at a very high risk if the transition is badly managed. They are the canaries in the mine for political commitments to a Just Transition alongside the European Green Deal and digital agenda.
2 March, 2021As the entire Belarusian independent union movement is under threat, a stronger involvement and intervention by the international community is urgently needed in Belarus.
IndustriALL Global Union is again strongly denouncing the continuing violations of fundamental human and workers’ rights, attacks on independent unions and repression of union leaders and activists, in breach of international labour standards and norms, ratified by Belarus.
The recent police raids on the offices and homes of trade union activists clearly show that authorities are trying to intimidate everyone in order to discourage people from fighting for democracy and human rights.
During the brutal search of the office of IndustriALL affiliate, the Belarusian Radio and Electronic Industry Workers Union (REP), police found a shotgun cartridge, which the union leadership claims had been planted to justify further repression. The find may result in allegations of terrorist activity with lifetime i