Britain could help tackle climate change and create one million new jobs in the process.<\/p>\n
A new pamphlet<\/a> from the UK\u00a0Campaign Against Climate Change<\/a> trade union group, backed by the unions RMT, CWU, PCS, TSSA and UCU, says the new jobs \u201care involved in producing alternative energy, insulating and renovating buildings and making more efficient appliances, investing in public transport and educating and training new workers.\u201d<\/p>\n Jonathan Neale, one of the pamphlet\u2019s authors, says: \u201cWe want people to use the pamphlet to organise local meetings of trade unionists and put the argument for green jobs. We hope it will give confidence to workers facing job losses to fight.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0The pamphlet notes: \u201cSome jobs will go \u2013 in the old energy economy for example. But many more jobs will be created than lost. It takes many more workers to run buses and trains than it does to build cars for the same number of passengers. And jobs renovating homes and buildings do not put anyone out of work.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u201cWe will have to protect people who lose their jobs \u2013 and this is easy if the government is hiring the climate workers.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u201cThe new Climate Service that we want to see will hire a million direct workers, but create about one and a half million jobs in all. This is a rough estimate.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0It notes that governments spend money when it suits them – on wars,\u00a0armaments, or bailing out the banks –\u00a0so the price tag isn\u2019t a valid argument. \u201cWe estimate that we can employ a million workers over a 10 year period for less than the government gave the banks in one year. The government will save money on taxes and benefits by employing more workers. The same is true for the indirect jobs that would be created.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u201cAnd the government will get money back \u2013 bus and train passengers can buy tickets, people will pay bills for electricity from renewable energy.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0For more, see the report in Socialist Worker<\/a> and the ITUC climate change webpages.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Britain could help tackle climate change and create one million new jobs in the process. A new pamphlet from the UK\u00a0Campaign Against Climate Change trade union group, backed by the unions RMT, CWU, PCS, TSSA and UCU, says the new jobs \u201care involved in producing alternative energy, insulating and renovating buildings and making more efficient […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[72],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}