Climate Action - Strike Action
Laura Pidcock People's Assembly National Secretary
Danielle Obono French MP, France Insoumise
Roz Foyer STUC General Secretary
Lynn Henderson PCS National Officer
Roza Salih SNP activist and refugee rights campaigner
Carol Mochan Labour MSP
Elaine Graham-Leigh Author - A Diet of Austerity: Class, Food and Climate Change
With special contributions from...
Michael Hogg from the RMT on the ScotRail strike
The Glasgow cleansing workers
Unite Hospitality
Chair: Jonathon Shafi
Tens of thousands of delegates, campaigners and activists will converge on Glasgow for COP26. On the eve of the mass demonstrations taking place across the world - including a major mobilisation in Scotland - the People’s Assembly will host a public rally calling for radical action on climate change that puts people before profit.
The Tories boast that they’re world leaders on climate, but we know that their policies just offer us more of the same: more austerity, more privatisation and deepening inequality. The post-Covid recovery plan must feature rapid decarbonisation - and workers must be central to a "just transition."
During COP26 there will be significant strikes that are directly related to these issues. Rail workers will take action alongside cleansing workers and school staff. These strikes draw the links between workers and key climate demands around public transport and environmental standards. There is a mood to fight back against cuts and for better pay and conditions after the pandemic. The People’s Assembly rally will hear from figures across the trade union movement and from workers taking strike action in the context of historic mobilisations for real and meaningful climate action that can give people and planet a future.
