Trade Union Involvement in Just Transition initiatives |
Introduction
European Union climate policies target net-zero emissions by 2050 and the recently announced Green Deal seems to have further stirred salience and urgency. In the next few decades, the European industry is facing a major challenge: transitioning towards climate-neutral and low-carbon production processes. In this transition, trade unions will also be addressed, as this transition may lead to challenges for the workforce. According to industriAll Europe, “…the deep modernisation process will have to be carefully monitored and managed well, ensuring a fair and socially acceptable transition that pays due attention to the workers and regions that risk losing out in the transition. (…) The social implications of this transformation must be considered from the outset and all relevant policy tools be developed and deployed to mitigate the impact on workers and regions”. In order to develop a Just Transition plan, it is crucial to gain insight in initiatives already taken by companies, governments or trade unions.
The objective of this survey is to gather examples of initiatives taken in regard to this transformation towards a climate-neutral industry and to look at the involvement of trade unions in these initiatives. The term ‘initiative’ gathers any action and proposition taken at any level, which aims at transforming the actual industry landscape either in term of ethics, process, management, governance, etc. These initiatives could include internal actions in trade unions or joint actions, including management, trade unions, and other parties. Initiatives may be introduced by management, government, trade unions, or external parties and could take place at several levels (workplace, company, sectoral, country level).
This survey is part of a broader research project entitled “Building Capacities and Strategies of Trade Union Involvement in shaping a Just Transition towards a Sustainable and Decarbonised Industry” that was initiated by industriAll Europe and is led by KU Leuven (Belgium). The most informative initiatives will be followed by in-depth interviews.
The survey will take approximately 15 minutes. You can fill in the survey for one or as many examples of initiatives as you are aware of. At the end of this survey, we ask you to pin the initiatives on Google Maps.
Thank you for your feedback!
This project is funded by the European Commission (DG Employment Budget line VP/2019/002 Information and training measures for workers' organisations, Project reference VP/2019/002/0047)
The objective of this survey is to gather examples of initiatives taken in regard to this transformation towards a climate-neutral industry and to look at the involvement of trade unions in these initiatives. The term ‘initiative’ gathers any action and proposition taken at any level, which aims at transforming the actual industry landscape either in term of ethics, process, management, governance, etc. These initiatives could include internal actions in trade unions or joint actions, including management, trade unions, and other parties. Initiatives may be introduced by management, government, trade unions, or external parties and could take place at several levels (workplace, company, sectoral, country level).
This survey is part of a broader research project entitled “Building Capacities and Strategies of Trade Union Involvement in shaping a Just Transition towards a Sustainable and Decarbonised Industry” that was initiated by industriAll Europe and is led by KU Leuven (Belgium). The most informative initiatives will be followed by in-depth interviews.
The survey will take approximately 15 minutes. You can fill in the survey for one or as many examples of initiatives as you are aware of. At the end of this survey, we ask you to pin the initiatives on Google Maps.
Thank you for your feedback!
This project is funded by the European Commission (DG Employment Budget line VP/2019/002 Information and training measures for workers' organisations, Project reference VP/2019/002/0047)