Ben Lennon

Climate, energy and industry @etuc_ces

[Ben Lennon @BenLenun]

I wrote this for Jacobin:

'When you ask workers to develop a policy response to the issues facing their industry, they come up with very different solutions to what has so far been offered by the UK government or the companies involved'

https://t.co/Qqm35Yl3ai

[Matt Bruenig @MattBruenig]

Got Claude populating a database of collective bargaining agreements that are randomly deposited across the web on local union websites. Useful reference for if you are negotiating a CBA. All full-text searchable like my other DBs.

[FEPS @FEPS_Europe]

📹Tune in LIVE to the policy conference “A clean, just and #Competitive European industry”!
🔴https://t.co/cTMktFVFtr

Since the release of the #Draghi report one year ago, competitiveness has become the main theme of the European Commission. However, the definition of Competitiveness remains fuzzy and the narrative around it problematic.

The conference will discuss the goals of the European #Industrial policy and explore the necessary combination of the clean, just and competitive dimensions.

🤝Organised by FEPS and FES Just Climate and Social Justice, @FES_Europa, in collaboration with the @TheProgressives, @PES_CoR, @etuc_ces, @industriAll_EU & @Solidar_EU

[Anthony Smith ✊ 🌺 @smith51_a]

Des centaines de licenciements, la fin programmée de l’acier en France et en Europe mais Mittal achète un club de basket à 1 milliard de dollars.

ArcelorMittal se fout des travailleurs et Macron, en laissant faire, se fout de nous.

Une seule solution : la NATIONALISATION !

[Mariana Mazzucato @MazzucatoM]

Great to speak with @ETUC_CES and @EU_EESC today about the critical role of workers & trade unions in shaping just green industrial strategies.

One way of ensuring that workers benefit from these strategies is through conditionalities. Read my working paper with @rodrikdani to learn more ➡️ https://t.co/2OxVHweSP5

[Justin Slaughter @JBSDC]

Comes after 75 minutes of the Biden Admin alums saying they did a great job and had no regrets or even mentioned that Dems lost.

I suspect this is the first time some of these senior Biden alums experienced direct public criticism to their faces in years.

[Ben Lennon @BenLenun]

From auto, to batteries to heat pumps, the supposed green jobs of the future are failing to deliver.

Join unions, MEPs and researchers on Tuesday to discuss how a Just Transition Directive can make the Clean Industrial Deal actually work for workers.
https://t.co/e2kbYR2kHr

[EUROPEAN TRADE UNIONS @etuc_ces]

Spain: 60,000 people who work for delivery platform Glovo reclassified as workers thanks to strong government legislation.

That means respect of their workers rights to sick leave, holiday pay & collective bargaining.

If it can be done in Spain, it can be done throughout 🇪🇺

[Kate Aronoff @KateAronoff]

👑 https://t.co/92PTcpLK7q

[Ben Lennon @BenLenun]

"The framework would have been legally binding and the first continent-wide deal between workers and fossil fuel companies focused on the decarbonisation of the energy system"

Leaving the transition to the goodwill of fossil fuel execs is a terrible idea

https://t.co/G1CEFIsroM

[Kate Aronoff @KateAronoff]

Spent most of last week hearing from autoworkers in the U.S. & EU about their frustrations with Stellantis and the transition to EVs: it's not about climate rules or Chinese "over-capacty" but that CEOs have dropped the ball and governments have let them https://t.co/92PTcpLK7q

[Sara Matthieu 🇪🇺 @msaraswati]

Thousands of auto workers in EU at risk of losing their jobs. The reason? Decades of poor management slowing down shift to EV's and capitalising on profits from fossil cars. Shareholder profits are put ahead of innovation.

[Ben Lennon @BenLenun]

Public procurement makes up 14% of EU GDP, yet in 55% of cases, contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder.

This leads to public money going from the pockets of workers to some of the richest companies while encouraging a race to the bottom and worsening labour conditions.

[UNI Europa @UNI_Europa]

BREAKING🇪🇺: In an open letter released today, more than 100 world-leading economists, including @IsabellaMWeber, @PikettyWIL and @AnnPettifor, support essential workers’ call for EU public procurement rules which improve pay and conditions.

https://t.co/gxYNcLHR66

[Ben Lennon @BenLenun]

"the remedies put in place by the EU to deal with the social consequences of climate action are too narrow and fragmented and contain almost no legal obligations to promote a socially ‘just transition’ that ‘leaves no-one behind’—the leitmotif of the EU Green Deal"

[Kalina Arabadjieva @k_arabadjieva]

In our new YEL piece, @sanjabogojevic and I discuss the limitations of the current #EuropeanGreenDeal #JustTransition framework, drawing on examples from Bulgaria and Serbia, and propose how it can be improved through additional legal safeguards.
📜👉https://t.co/DES3fvOYaq

[Ben Lennon @BenLenun]

A just transition in the most polluting sectors is possible with strong unions and long-term planning.

The EU can ensure all high-carbon workers can benefit by passing a just transition directive based on anticipating change before it is too late.

[Ben Lennon @BenLenun]

40% of IRA delayed (https://t.co/e8P9gIcxpv)

The neo-industrial turn is good news only to the extent that it gives new impetus to old concerns:
Who decides where the money goes?
What are its objectives?
How is it used and misused?

- Cédric Durand (https://t.co/eOBi4eCJEV)

[Naomi Klein @NaomiAKlein]

"Solar panels. Heat Pumps. Electric buses."

Just three of the demands Chicago Teachers Union @CTULocal1 is making for its next contract, because kids can't learn on a boiling planet.

This is visionary bargaining for the common good. https://t.co/ig89Jefwpk

[Ben Lennon @BenLenun]

Instead of learning why Chinese EVs are better, the EU imposes sanctions.

BYD’s $14k car goes 2,000km on one charge.

6% of EU jobs rely on the auto industry, many using Chinese parts now open to retaliation.

Workers need a real Industrial Deal now.

https://t.co/pByRiseDdY

[EUROPEAN TRADE UNIONS @etuc_ces]

The Just Transition isn't happening fairly across Europe. Workers in Central & Eastern Europe need to be empowered to ensure action lives up to rhetoric.

📨 Letter by 22 union leaders from Central & Eastern Europe to Env + Labour Ministers on need for #JustTransition Directive.

[Jude Kirton-Darling @Jude_KD]

As @etuc_ces set out - our industries are already in transition but workers are being denied the tools to anticipate & manage the changes underway #JustTransition
At @industriAll_EU we want rights, up/reskilling, job to job transitions & an active industrial policy @KhattabiZakia

[industriAll Europe @industriAll_EU]

🤬Gas employers @Eurogas_Eu walked away from a meaningful agreement with trade unions. 🤬

They only talk the talk of a #JustTransition - it's high time to walk the walk! We call on the @EU_Commission to put forward a legal proposal for a framework on JT to ensure that workers’ futures aren’t left to the whim of insincere employers.

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