International Labour Conference 2023 - David Joyce speech
Speech of David Joyce, Irish Worker Delegate I congratulate the DG for choosing the issue of advancing social justice for both his report to the ILC and his initiative for a new Global Coalition. On this special day, the World Day against child labour, let me start by saying that the abolition of...
Delivering on a Just Transition – a Blog in advance of the National Climate Stakeholder Forum May 2023
Members of the Just Transition Alliance will be attending this week’s National Climate Stakeholder Forum. In advance of the forum we have written to Minister Eamon Ryan (Full letter here) to express our deep and growing concern over the ongoing failure of government to put in place suitable and...
Global Solidarity Summer School
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Looking forward to welcoming people to our global solidarity summer school in Sligo Thursday 8 to Friday 9 September!
Programme available here: /sites/default/files/users/user319/Summer%20School%20Programme%202022.pdf
Climate Debate Heating Up
The world is burning. This is a climate emergency and we have to start acting like it. Runways in the UK melting, 33 degrees in Phoenix Park, Dublin. This summer has been a scorcher and all the evidence points to such events occurring with greater frequency in the future. Link to climate change...
Call for a National Just Transition Commission
A newly formed alliance of trade unions, environmental and civil society groups has called for the immediate establishment of a national Just Transition Commission to develop an agreed blueprint for the zero-carbon transition, build public support for climate action and ensure that no worker or...
