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Wales TUC Greener Workplaces Network: Wales’ energy future and the workplace
November 22, 2022 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
**Participants can choose either joining in person or online, please register for confirming your attendance.
This event:
Green energy must be adopted various industries in order to achieve net zero targets by 2050. The transition will have an enormous influence on different workplaces and no worker should be left behind. From a trade union point of view, green energy has other benefits besides the obvious environmental ones: it can create more jobs on site or in the UK renewable energy industry, and the investment a company makes is a good indication of its greater commitment to the future of the company.
How will energy be generated and used in the future and how might it affect union members’ jobs?
Prof Calvin Jones from Cardiff University offers some radical visions of a sustainable future economy to spark debate on how this might affect workplaces and workers.
Mary Williams from Unite Wales will share with us about union’s views on matters relating to powering heavy industry and manufacturing and the views of workers in the energy industry.
Other speakers from a practical union case study to be confirmed.
Who is this event for?
This event will be of particular interest to green/environmental reps and health and safety reps, but will also be relevant for full time officers, branch officials, shop stewards, other reps and all those trade unionists interested in the future of work and the future of the planet. Please share widely with Trade Union colleagues.
About the Greener Workplaces Network
The group will meet every other month. Each meeting will feature guest speakers to explore different topics, provide an opportunity for reps to network and share good practice and include updates from the Wales TUC and our union family.
This is your network, so join us for this event and let us know your thoughts on how to shape our future, please email swaihongho@tuc.org.uk Stanley Ho from the Wales TUC with your suggestions for future discussion.
If you’d like more ideas and information about what unions are doing to create greener workplaces, download our Greener Workplaces for a Just Transition toolkit here and visit our campaign page where you’ll find campaign videos and more information.