Received from: BFAWU
Congress welcomes the 2024 TUC motion recognising that the climate emergency is a trade union issue impacting all jobs and workers. Congress reaffirms its support for climate-related workplace action, including heat strikes, and the call for a year of trade union climate action 2025–2026, now also national policy for several affiliated unions.
Congress recognises:
i. workers are already suffering from extreme weather, flooding, and unaffordable fossil fuel energy
ii. the UK is unprepared for escalating climate disasters
iii. a rapid, just global transition from fossil fuels is essential to avoid catastrophic climate breakdown.
Congress calls on the TUC and affiliates to:
a. support and organise a workplace day of action on 14 November 2025 and support protests on the global day of solidarity on 15 November 2025, during COP30 in Brazil.
Congress resolves to:
1. promote green bargaining in all union training, campaign for facility time for green reps, build national and regional green reps’ networks
2. encourage unions to organise outreach events, including workplace discussions and joint actions with other unions and civil society on climate, housing, health, fuel poverty and anti-racism during 2025–2026
3. support global solidarity initiatives including the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty and climate justice finance such as Brazil’s proposed two per cent tax on billionaires
4. promote and support mobilisation around the workplace day of action on 14 November 2025 and global day of solidarity on 15 November 2025, during COP30 in Brazil
5. instruct the TUC Just Transition team to produce and coordinate publicity and promotion to support affiliates throughout the year.
Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union
AMENDMENT
In bullet 3., after “billionaires” insert:
“, while understanding that future fossil fuel production can only be ended when and where a fully funded workers’ plan for jobs has been agreed and delivered in full”
Unite