Sean Sweeney

Coordinator of @TUED_global @CunySLU Working with unions and their allies. Currently researching #PublicPathway approaches to energy transition

[TUED @TUED_global]

This Week in TUED 🧵

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Global Energy Embargo for Palestine
New Energy for Africa meeting
Fighting Bangladesh power privatisations
Young Workers and Climate Justice in the Asia-Pacific Region

... and more!

[Sean Sweeney @SeanSwe93180936]

@TUED_global Amazing. A busy week!

[Sean Sweeney @SeanSwe93180936]

More power to the public pathway

[TUED @TUED_global]

#EntrevistaTUED🎙️

@PenarandaLala de TUED con Gonzalo Castelgrande @gcastelgrande79, Presidente del sindicato @AUTE_uy ⚡️

-Cómo va la #TransicionJusta en Uruguay?
-Que lecciones ofrece AUTE a otrxs sindicatos luchando vs las privatizaciones "verdes"?

📺https://t.co/2pL0iN1ThO

[Sean Sweeney @SeanSwe93180936]

a true milestone in global trade union organizing and thinking

[TUED @TUED_global]

📰Fresh off the press!

Walking the #PublicPathway: In Feb 2025, 120 union leaders & allies from 35 countries gathered in Mexico City for the Second Inter-Regional #TUEDSouth meeting

Read the session details, results & next steps!

TUED Bulletin 158: https://t.co/jaRNAFPEir

[Sean Sweeney @SeanSwe93180936]

@TUED_global @ihpshen so important!

[Sean Sweeney @SeanSwe93180936]

Public energy = power back to the people. Essential for climate protection AND energy security

[Rosalux-Europa @RosaluxEuropa]

While the private sector is writing the script to intentionally disrupt the European public energy systems, @SeanSwe93180936 (from @TUED_global) highlights the importance of a #publicpathway approach to counter this trend!

👉🏽 Check out our new study: https://t.co/TWpm6t7pN2

[Sean Sweeney @SeanSwe93180936]

Great work everybody! I’ve been taken a back by the response to this initiative. It’s clear that unions in the global size are weighing in on the need for alternative.!

[TUED @TUED_global]

🎙️The press conference was at full capacity when 100+ Global South unions issued a hard-hitting statement at #COP29 in Azerbaijan.

🌿TUED spoke about the statement w/ @rho_darling, @ecoklas, @ErnestNadome2, @dabigdyul, @Leon_Ayo

🌹Read the statement: https://t.co/Sv1WstSpip

[Rosalux-Europa @RosaluxEuropa]

⚡️The dramatic increase of energy prices over the last years underlined the urgengy to reform Europe’s energy market.

In our new study, @SeanSwe93180936 lays out the advantages of a publicly owned, democratically run energy system.

🔗Check it out: https://t.co/zEjNi2RHGw

[Sean Sweeney @SeanSwe93180936]

@TUED_global @sindicato_sme @rosaluxglobal @Untypp @PSIglobalunion @ISPinteramerica @MexSolidarity @labornotes In terms of a just energy transition, Mexico City could be one of the more significant South-South union gatherings of recent years, because there is no alternative but to find an alternative! The current "privatise to decarbonise" approach is failing, time for a public pathway

[Rosalux-Europa @RosaluxEuropa]

The recent Draghi report underlines that energy prices in the #EU are 4 times higher than in the #US, but proposes the same old recipe of austerity to tackle the current #energycrisis.

[Irene HongPing Shen @ihpshen]

🌱 @TUED_global's bulletin 151 - centering a feminist agenda in the #publicpathway for a #justenergytransition 💪🏽👩🏿‍🤝‍👩🏾👩🏿‍🤝‍👩🏽Enery poverty disproportionately affects women & girls. IPPs have disrupted the ability to systematically address and reduce EP. Opposing IPPs is critical. #WLPPP

[TUED @TUED_global]

⚡️Introducing TUED regional quarterly mtgs!

Each region will hold quarterly mtgs to increase the exchange of campaigns, reports, news + updates w/in regions:

* Africa
* Asia-Pacific
* LatAm & the Caribbean
* North America + Europe

📸From the Asia-Pacific mtg last night:

[Sean Sweeney @SeanSwe93180936]

TUED making progress in Asia-Pacific region.

[TUED @TUED_global]

Unions across the Asia-Pacific region are committed to a dramatic reduction of GHGs. The market-focused “privatise to decarbonise” approach to decarbonising is dangerously ineffective in AP & beyond

TUED is growing - as is the call for a #PublicPathway alt to a #JustTransition✊🏽

[Sean Sweeney @SeanSwe93180936]

@TUED_global TUED growing in Asia Pacific!

[TUED @TUED_global]

"The privatisation of our lives has been detrimental to girls’ & women’s rights. We must use this #JustTransition opening to fight back & reclaim the public services, including energy, that allow us to exercise our rights.”

- Smritee Lama @GEFONT Nepal

[Sean Sweeney @SeanSwe93180936]

great class-based response to all of the "we need women to be at the forefront of legitimizing our corporate agenda" crowd. Great things will come from this leadership initiative!

[TUED @TUED_global]

📢Unions declare: “Feminist Public Pathway Now!”

A majority of 'gender inclusivity' discussions are stuck in a market-based approach to decarbonisation.

Unions are developing a #PublicPathway alternative as a feminist approach to a #JustTransition

📰https://t.co/CvhqpNcQ5M

[Brian Kamanzi @BrianIKamanzi]

[Podcast] Listen in to a conversation I had with @JonSward on a report from @brettonwoodspr on the implications of the World Banks Development Policy financing & the private led energy transition in India, Colombia and Rwanda. See report link in thread

[TUED @TUED_global]

TUED Radio Ep 6. This week, we delve into the complexities of energy justice & global financial policies with a focus Development Policy Finance via the World Bank & its role in shaping a private-led energy transition- @JonSward from the @brettonwoodspr

https://t.co/7GS4MQb30D

[Irene HongPing Shen @ihpshen]

Decentralized public energy will certainly be necessary in a #PublicPathway. Those projects need to be part of coordinated plans in the #energytransition. Democratic control of energy must include planning for local priorities of marginalized communities, feminist & worker needs.

[Sean Sweeney @SeanSwe93180936]

@TUED_global @ihpshen Well said Irene @ihpshen (and @TUED_global) for a clear statement on the importance of women leaders and trade unions in the struggle for the #PublicPathway