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🌍 Join us July 28, 13:30 CEST for a global call to action on peace, disarmament & justice.

With @ituc.bsky.social @greenpeace.org @oxfaminternational.bsky.social @350.org @nuclearban.bsky.social @intpeacebureau.bsky.social

💬 Defend democracy. Challenge inequality. Build peace.

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Workers want a just transition at COP30 in Belém The UN climate negotiations that took place in Bonn this June did not bring the progress that is needed to stop the climate emergency, nor did it take the devastating impact of climate change on worke...

OPINION | by @bertdewel.bsky.social & Boitumelo Molete (COSATU)

#JustTransition #TradeUnion #COP30 #UNFCCC #SB62 #ClimateJustice #WorkersRights #NDCs #ClimateAction @ituc.bsky.social

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YouTube video by ITUCCSI Climate Denialism & the Extreme Right – Union Strategies to Fight Back

🎥 Missed our webinar "Climate Denialism & the Extreme Right – Union Strategies to Fight Back"? No worries — you can still catch this powerful conversation!

📺 Watch now: youtu.be/lZuMGcZeP2U

🌍 Happening today!

🎥 Webinar: Climate Denialism & the Extreme Right – Union Strategies to Fight Back
🕑 14:00–16:00 CEST | 🌐 EN/FR/ES

With speakers from FFW 🇵🇭, CGIL 🇮🇹, CUT 🇧🇷 & Greenpeace 🌿

📺Join here: ituc-csi-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🎥WEBINAR: Climate Denialism & the Extreme Right – Union Strategies to Fight Back
📅 Monday, 23 June
🕑 14h CEST

🎙️ Featuring powerful voices from the global union & climate movements: FFW, CGIL, CUT Brasil, and Greenpeace International.

📺Join here: ituc-csi-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Far right populists are attacking workers' rights and climate action, and they're gaining ground.
Unions are on the frontlines, pushing back with real alternatives: Just Transition, good jobs and solidarity.
👇Join our webinar to join the conversation. Limited spots!

Workers' rights collapse across the world: ITUC Global Rights Index 2025 Workers' rights are in free fall across every continent, according to the 2025 ITUC Global Rights Index, with Europe and the Americas recording their worst scores since the Index began in 2014. Just s...

📢 JUST LAUNCHED: The 2025 ITUC Global Rights Index 📉#RightsIndex25

🌍 Workers’ rights are collapsing globally — with only 7 countries scoring top marks out of 151
⚠️ 87% violated the right to strike
🛑 Democracy and labour justice are under attack
www.ituc-csi.org/ituc-global-...

#JustTransitionRising
✊️ Will you join us?

Registration still open!
➡️ events.zoom.us/ev/AqbvYuXcl...

The billionaire coup against democracy is no joke – but it will be memed In January, Australian writer Rebecca Shaw wrote an article for The Guardian that got a headline for the ages: “I knew one day I'd have to watch powerful men burn the world down - I just didn't expect...

OPINION | by @organise.bsky.social @ituc.bsky.social

“The challenge ahead for unions and their allies is to organise, motivate, and mobilise this collective awareness into effective collective action.”

www.equaltimes.org/the-billiona...

Work at the ITUC Vacancies There are currently no vacancies available. Tenders

📢 Invitation to Tender!
The ITUC is calling for tenders for developing and implementing training on Just Transition for trade unions in Africa.
📅 Deadline to apply: 31 March 2025
🔍 For more info about the job, visit: buff.ly/4k02jQL

YouTube video by IPES-Food WOMEN GROW, COOK & SUSTAIN OUR FOOD. IT'S TIME TO RECOGNIZE THEM

♀️🌍 #InternationalWomensDay reminds us WOMEN FEED THE WORLD!

Women produce 60% of food in the Global South—yet are denied land, finance & power.

“If we don’t get more gender equality in #foodsystems, we’ll keep skewing toward profit—away from sustainability & feeding people.”
#IWD2025

US withdraws from UN climate damage fund Establishment of the fund in 2023 was a victory for climate change activists from developing nations.

The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from the United Nations climate damage fund that was established in 2023 at COP28 to help developing countries most vulnerable to climate change when natural disasters strike.

Work at the ITUC Vacancies There are currently no vacancies available. Tenders

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The ITUC’s Just Transition and Climate department is calling for tenders for the "Development of a #JustTransition Manifesto for the Textile & Garment sector"🧵👕♻️

📅 Deadline to apply: 24 February 2025
🔍 For more info: buff.ly/4k02jQL

Climate change adaptation means rights for workers Spain's new labour measures could set the perfect precedent for protecting workers.

As climate change worsens, Spain’s new labour measures could set the perfect precedent for protecting workers against events that are no longer so unpredictable

✍️ ETUI researchers Marouane Laabbas-el-Guennouni & @karabadjieva.bsky.social in Social Europe

www.socialeurope.eu/climate-chan...

"flowers are tools of self-care, resistance, and communication, deeply rooted in their communities. They symbolize dignity and survival in a system that denies women their basic rights. As the protest song Bread and Roses goes - it is bread we fight for, but we fight for roses too."

With workers left behind at COP29 in Baku, it's time to look ahead to COP30 in Belém This November, the global trade union movement attended and participated in the 29th United Nations Climate Change Conference, or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (more commonly known as COP29)...

At #COP29 in Baku, workers' voices were sidelined in climate negotiations. As we look to #COP30 in Belém, it's crucial to prioritize a #JustTransition that includes and protects all workers. 🌍👷‍♀️👷‍♂️

@equaltimes.bsky.social

Spain introduces paid climate leave after deadly floods Government approves up to four days of paid leave so workers can avoid travelling during weather emergencies

Spanish government introduces paid climate leave. Up to 4 days in case of extreme weather www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

A new topic for collective bargaining.

How Climate Change, Conflict, & Greed Devastated a Fertile Land The story of Karen State in southeast Myanmar

Last week, I wrote about COP29 and food systems from a mostly global perspective. This week, as COP29 winds down (with a finance deal still elusive), I want to zoom in on the climate and food impacts at a local level, because the consequences are very real.

news.thin-ink.net/p/how-climat...

🎥 Sindicalistas de CCOO cantamos 'Canción Sin Miedo' contra las violencias machistas 🎶🎶

🟣Este #25N hemos reunido a más de 100 mujeres sindicalistas en una acción simbólica para apoyar a todas las víctimas y supervivientes frente a las violencias machistas.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAK4...

#JustTransition was thrown under a bus - one more casualty in a #COP29 that added salt to the injury caused by a disgraceful deal on climate finance. The Brazilian Presidency will have the difficult duty to repair what has been broken in Baku. Full CAN reaction climatenetwork.org/2024/11/23/c...

Made a starter pack for those working on #SustainableWelfare, #JustTransition, and #EcoSocial

Feel free to recommend (or self-recommend!) people to add. Let’s grow this network 🌱
@karabadjieva.bsky.social @tiagomramalho.bsky.social

go.bsky.app/PzBGzR1

The European #TradeUnion movement is here.

Check out this starter pack to see which ETUC-affiliated trade #unions are on Bluesky.

go.bsky.app/QNGPnhU

New to BlueSky too? Want stay in the loop with the global trade union movement?

Checkout this #starterpack of unions around the world:
go.bsky.app/HHsXSrp

👀 Spot anything missing? Drop your union's handle in the comments - let’s grow this list together!

🔄 Boost this post to help everyone connect.

Great #starterpack for workers' rights in the textile and garment industry.
#GarmentWorkersNeedUnions

Starter Pack on Colonialism, Decolonisation & Race 👇. Interdisciplinary and not limited to academics. Set it up last week so I may have missed people who joined recently - pls let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed). ..Overlapping starter packs v.welcome!

go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q

Is #FollowFriday #FF also a thing on Bluesky?
If so, here’s a bunch of people and organizations talking food, farming and EU policy 👇
go.bsky.app/GGZk82Q

‘Make the beans your bitch’ – how to join the leguminati, plus five great recipes Pulses and legumes (basically beans and peas) are much tastier than people realise, and not difficult to cook. Plus they have major environmental benefits * ‘It’s like a secret’: why do the leguminati want to change the way we eat? Beans can seem…

‘Make the beans your bitch’ – how to join the leguminati, plus five great recipes