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Another typical high-level event at #UNEA7 on environmental, industrial and social risks of critical minerals. Only governments, business and youth at the table.👎 No workers that actually are bearing the social and industrial risks.
@unep.org #OHCHR @ec.europa.eu @brsconventions.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Today at the UN Environment Assembly #UNEA7 in Nairobi. Rebecca Okello expresses profound concern about the complete absence of any mention in the negotiations of workers’ fundamental rights, #DecentWork, occupational safety and health #OHS. @ituc.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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The IEA warns that a slow shift away from fossil fuels would leave the world with 1.3 million fewer energy jobs by 2035.
IEA: Slow energy transition would cost millions of jobs
A rapid transition would create enough new green roles to more than offset job losses in coal mines, power plants and oil and gas fields, a report found
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December 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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📊 Energy jobs are growing — but quality matters.

🗣️ “New energy jobs must be good jobs: decent pay, conditions & union rights. Skills matter, but decent work comes first. It’s what attracts skilled workers.” @bertdewel.bsky.social

🔗 @iea.org : www.iea.org/news/energy-...

#JustTransition
December 5, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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World Energy Employment 2025 comes out Friday!

It offers a comprehensive look at the global energy workforce today and outlines future prospect & risks – such as emerging job opportunities and growing labour & skills shortages.

Watch the LIVE launch 👉 iea.li/4pO2919
December 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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🌍✊ Big win for #ClimateJustice & workers!

The new Belém Action Mechanism #BAM gives workers, unions, women & communities a seat at the UNFCCC table—for the first time ever.

Labour rights, social dialogue, collective bargaining & universal social protection are vital to bold, fair #ClimateAction.
November 24, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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🗣️ “#COP30 must make a real shift:
✅ Put labour rights at the core
✅ Guarantee social protection for all
✅ Ensure social dialogue with unions

We need a seat at the table to protect jobs & livelihoods. That’s why we’re calling for a Belém Action Mechanism” @bertdewel.bsky.social

#BAM #JustTransition
November 21, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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What are trade unions calling for at #COP30?

The JET-CR Knowledge Hub, caught up with @bertdewel.bsky.social, @ituc.bsky.social, to discuss how a Belém Action Mechanism (BAM) can underpin the Just Transition Work Programme.

Learn more 👉
www.jetknowledge.org/news/just-tr...
November 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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🌍✊ Week 1 of #COP30 in Belém: the union movement’s delegation has been hard at work for climate action with justice.

💚 good green jobs
💰 more public finance for emissions cuts + adaptation
⚡ faster, deeper emission reductions
🤝 #JustTransition for everyone

ITUC #COP30 demands ➡️ buff.ly/BD9UGXQ
November 18, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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10 years after Paris — Europe’s biggest diplomatic win — EU risks showing up at #COP30 with words, not leadership.

Europe can still act:
→ Support a Just Transition Mechanism
→ Back tripling adaptation finance by 2030

Not new ambitions — just what’s needed for credibility!

tinyurl.com/ys2eknef
COP30: Council sets EU position for the climate conference in Belém
The Council today approved conclusions on COP30, reinforcing the EU's commitment to keeping 1.5°C within reach, scaling up climate finance and driving global energy transition and adaptation efforts.
www.consilium.europa.eu
October 22, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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9️⃣
Tasneem:

Let’s institutionalise support for national #JustTransition plans - real cooperation, real resources. Governments agreed to transition away from fossil fuels at COP28. That means real plans in NDCs - not just energy, but food systems too. Justice must shape it all.”

#BAM
October 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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🌍✊ Trade Unions at #PreCOP2025 in Brasília:
Workers demand a #JustTransition COP30!

💼 Quality green jobs
⚖️ Climate justice & equity
💰 $1.3T climate finance with no added debt

📣It’s time to move from promises to action.

📰Read the ITUC Demands for #COP30: bit.ly/4nM1Sv2
October 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Unions have climate solutions! Powerful Just transition actions from South Africa presented by Boitumelo Molete (COSATU), Eche Asuzu (NLC), Mansi Shaw (SEWA) and Rosalina Amorim (CUT), shared by Kaira Reece (TUCA). We're ready for COP30. Unions are central for the implementation of climate policies.
October 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Saudi Arabia bans protests. Migrant workers who tried to denounce labour abuses on solar projects were deported. buff.ly/A3QMDJv
October 8, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Less than 1 out of 5 renewable energy bosses is a women. A shame. The energy transition needs to be gender inclusive! #JustTransition
www.irena.org/Publications...
Renewable energy: A gender perspective (Second edition)
This second edition of the report, Renewable energy: A gender perspective, updates global figures and offers policy recommendations to strengthen gender equality across the energy transition.
www.irena.org
October 8, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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🚨 HAPPENING TODAY!
🌍 It’s World Day for Decent Work – and we’re going LIVE at 13:30 CEST!
Join workers from around the world as we stand up for:
🗳️ Democracy
⚖️ Social Justice
💼 Prosperity for All

Don’t miss this important conversation.
🎟️ Still time to register: buff.ly/EwL9xFW

#WDDW2025
October 7, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Paapa Danquah, speaking for the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), described strikes as a timeless expression of collective action. “Strike action has been our vital tool … to improve labour conditions and to defend our human dignities".
news.un.org/en/story/202...
In landmark labour case, UN World Court weighs in on right to strike
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) opened hearings on Monday to determine whether the right to strike is protected under international law – the first time the world’s top court has been asked t...
news.un.org
October 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Workers on Saudi renewable projects were forced to pay $1,600 recruitment fees before being subjected to abusive conditions, a new report says. buff.ly/A3QMDJv
October 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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📢 This October, the call is #ForDemocracy to benefit everyone, not just elites. The #NewSocialContract demands:

🔶Stop corporate capture
🔶Enforce rights
🔶Invest in care
🔶Make democracy work for people, not profit

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October 6, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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🎥Building Power and Democracy at Work with #MigrantWorkers

🗣️ “Migrant workers are indispensable to the global economy, yet their basic rights — especially the right to freedom of association & collective bargaining — are often denied.” Irem Arf @ituc.bsky.social

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September 30, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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🚨 Gaza Update: ITUC urgently calls for sustainable peace and the immediate release of the Global Sumud Flotilla participants 🚢🕊️.

🔗https://buff.ly/iYAgiGt

#SailToGaza #TradeUnionsForPeace #ForDemocracy #Solidarity
Gaza: ITUC calls for urgent action for sustainable peace and for the release of Global Sumud Flotilla participants
The ITUC expresses deep concern over the interception by the Israeli military of the Global Sumud Flotilla bound for Gaza. “This peaceful civil society mission to deliver aid to Palestinian civilians…
www.ituc-csi.org
October 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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💣 $2.72 trillion. That’s what the world spent on weapons in 2024

📉 While schools, hospitals & essential services are underfunded.
🕊️ 80 years after Hiroshima & Nagasaki, we don’t need more bombs — we need a global #nuclearban

🗞️ @equaltimes.bsky.social: www.ituc-csi.org/Eighty-years...
August 6, 2025 at 11:25 AM