Climate change and labour
Submitted by Admin on 29 January, 2009 - 09:50Could the trade union movement benefit from measures to tackle climate change?
By Asbjørn Wahl, Norwegian Union of Municipal and General Employees
Most problems in society are mainly social and political, even if at first glance they seem purely technical or scientific. This is a hard-earned lesson for the labour and trade union movement. For example, workplace technology can be developed to serve different interests: the shareholders, the customers, the workers… In the end it is the actual balance of power which decides the solution and who it will benefit.