🤔 Negotiating alone? That’s playing on hard mode. 🎙️In EP3, Monica Tepfer @ituc.bsky.social, explains how #CollectiveBargaining turns “pretty please” into demands employers have to take seriously. This is how workers go from hoping for change… to making it happen. 🎧 buff.ly/yEXDa8l

🎧 Our latest Everything Energy podcast episode is out! Listen as IEA’s Elspeth Hathaway & Rebecca Ruff examine what’s driving the surge in energy jobs & challenges that could undermine future momentum. Apple Podcasts: iea.li/4echhAF Spotify: iea.li/3Gc1tkP

🧵✊ Garment workers need a #JustTransition! Join us for the launch of the Trade Union Just Transition Manifesto for the Textile and Garment Supply Chain at the OECD Forum on Due Diligence. 📅 February 10, 2026 🕚 11:45 AM – 1:15 PM CET 👉 Register here: buff.ly/YzdgSlg

Two things to learn from this. 1. The rightwing newspapers are lobby groups whose purpose is to advance the class interest of their proprietors. 2. Lobbyists for the rich and powerful lose their jobs if they are not prepared to lie. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

🧵 5/5 🗣️ “We need strong unions, fair taxes, and worker power to reclaim democracy.” @luctriangle.bsky.social ITUC General Secretary 🔗Find out more: buff.ly/4QOQoGt #ForDemocracy #wef26

🧵 1/5 - The Billionaire Boom 💥 We are witnessing a billionaire coup against democracy. @oxfaminternational.bsky.social’s new report "Resisting the Rule of the Rich" exposes how wealth is skyrocketing while democracy is shrinking. 🔗Find out more: buff.ly/4QOQoGt #ForDemocracy #wef26

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

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

The IEA warns that a slow shift away from fossil fuels would leave the world with 1.3 million fewer energy jobs by 2035.

📊 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

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

🌍✊ 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.

🗣️ “#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

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...

🌍✊ 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

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

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

🌍✊ 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

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.

Saudi Arabia bans protests. Migrant workers who tried to denounce labour abuses on solar projects were deported. buff.ly/A3QMDJv

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...

🚨 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

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...

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

📢 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 EN buff.ly/hR3ZUEJ ES buff.ly/RVAeLwx FR buff.ly/Pxnsmjq

🎥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 📺 buff.ly/IsNjEoo 📰 buff.ly/c685VGz

🚨 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

💣 $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...

🌍 80yrs since Hiroshima & Nagasaki — Never again 💣 200,000 lives lost. The nuclear threat still looms ✊ Trade unions say: invest in people, not war 📝 Sign RENGO’s #nuclearban petition: www.jtuc-rengo.or.jp/activity/kiz... 📢 Support ITUC call for peace & democracy: www.ituc-csi.org/global-call-...

🌍 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. 🔗 bit.ly/4lBGPu7

🌍 BREAKING: Climate impunity ends today - by order of the world’s highest court. The International Court of Justice has spoken: ✅ States are legally obliged to act ✅ Inaction = human rights violation ✅ Polluters must be held accountable This is a legal revolution for our planet.

🔥 ⚖️ 🌐HAPPENING NOW: Historic #ClimateJustice Ruling being delivered by the 🇺🇳 🧑‍⚖️ International Court of Justice. 🚨This ruling could signal a new dawn for climate law & accountability 📝 🧵 Live thread below with context, summary & analysis 👇 #ClimateJusticeAO #AOLetsGo

This is SO important. The International Court of Justice affirms that the failure to phase out #FossilFuels can constitute an internationally wrongful act, giving way to #ClimateReparations for related harm. 🔥 Truly a new dawn for climate action and accountability. ⚖️ #ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ

Important piece in the guardian that quotes our work on how the petrochemical historical bloc seeks to derail a UN global plastics treaty @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social @policyrelevant.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

OPINION | by @bertdewel.bsky.social & Boitumelo Molete (COSATU) #JustTransition #TradeUnion #COP30 #UNFCCC #SB62 #ClimateJustice #WorkersRights #NDCs #ClimateAction @ituc.bsky.social equaltimes.org/workers-want...

CONFIRMED by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: Worker voices are essential to determining global efforts that address the climate crisis 🌍 Solidarity Center's @ilawnetwork.bsky.social was instrumental in ensuring workers were considered in landmark opinion. More here 🔗 sclinks.co/3GCnGZw

Historic Climate Ruling: Workers’ Rights Must Be at the Center of Climate Response, Says Inter-American Court www.solidaritycenter.org/historic-cli...

🌍 The #BonnClimateConference closed with a powerful call from trade unions: 💬 “Whether you’re in the Global North or the Global South, your workers are depending on you to deliver a #JustTransition.” #BelémCOP30 #ClimateAction

👀 Ojo a nuestro primer reel desde la #SB62 de Bonn con @bertdewel.bsky.social, de @ituc.bsky.social, representando a nuestras compañeras sindicales @ccoo.bsky.social y @ugtenverde.bsky.social 🌱 #justiciaclimática #alianzaporelclima #cop30 #transiciónjustaYA #justtransitionrising

🌍 At today’s IEA Labour Council, Luc Triangle stressed: “Workers are among the first to feel the climate crisis.” The new IEA report calls for good jobs & strong social dialogue to drive a just energy transition. 🔗 www.iea.org/news/iea-lab...

LobbyControl reveals that a new German organisation that attacks NGOs and their funding was set up by PR consultants and #lobbyists from the biotech and chemical industries 🚨 Founders of "Initiative Transparente Demokratie" work for or have worked for #Bayer #CEFIC + biotech and #tobacco industry ⚠️

Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality. A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social [A thread 1/8🧵]

Global trade unions have filed a complaint against #SaudiArabia at the UN's @ilo.org #ILC2025, citing severe abuses of migrant workers—including wage theft, passport confiscation & debt bondage. According to the #RightsIndex25, Saudi Arabia is rated 5 - “no guarantee of rights”.

🗣️ “From India to Argentina, a billionaire coup is undermining democracy and criminalizing unions. But workers have the power to #TakeBackDemocracy and lead a #JustTransition written by and for working people.” Todd Brogan @organise.bsky.social ✊

🔧 "Labour rights are a toolbox for social justice. If you allow unions, if you organize collective bargaining, if you enable social dialogue — that’s how we negotiate justice." – Bert De Wel, ITUC 🌍✊ @bertdewel.bsky.social #JustTransition #ClimateJustice #LabourRights #SocialDialogue

Just Transition Rising : Join us tomorrow for a second day of powerful debates on why and how a Just Transition will deliver Climate action! 💪👷🏿‍♀️👩‍👩‍👧‍👦👨‍👨‍👧‍👦🌳🐟 @ituc.bsky.social @canclimateaction.bsky.social

💬 Eric Manzi lors de #JustTransition Rising nous rappelle ce qui est en jeu : « Le climat est et a toujours été une “crise de justice”. Nous ne résoudrons jamais la crise climatique si nous ne nous attaquons pas aux immenses injustices qui y sont liées. » 🌍✊