Unjust Transition: The Future for Fossil Fuel Workers

Emily Eaton (Curatore)

Andrew Stevens (Curatore)

Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd, 2024

In 2019, Regina's Co-op Refinery Complex (CRC), a subsidiary of Federated Co-operative, locked out Unifor Local 594 after collective bargaining negotiations failed. CRC used the transition to a "low carbon" future as the justification for concessions on working conditions and reducing the workers' pension plan. The lockout demonstrates what a "just transition" means to fossil fuel corporations: rollbacks of collective bargaining, worker rights, cooperative spirit and environmental justice. In the name of a new future, Federated Co-operative and the Saskatchewan government trampled all over important worker rights -- the right to strike and picket, occupational health and safety, pensions and collective bargaining. It also highlights the sorry state of co-operative values in Canada. As corporations and governments are poised to make a transition that will be detrimental to workers and communities, this books argues that solidarity between unions and community movements is absolutely necessary to make the transition away from fossil fuels a just one.

• Curatore: Emily Eaton, Andrew Stevens
• Editore: Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
• Anno: 2024
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 200 p.
• Dimensioni: 23 x 15 mm
• EAN: 9781773636726

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