Workers and Trade Unions for Climate Solidarity

Hampton, Paul

doi:10.4324/9781315732220

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“…Unions’ goals of authentic participation and freedom contrast with the ‘jobs vs. environment blackmail’ (Capra and Mattei, 2015: 121; Hampton, 2015: 186), which impairs labour’s capacity to react to environmental stress (Barca and Leonardi, 2018; Tiraboschi, 2014). Where democratic deficits and dependency increase and labour vulnerabilities are exacerbated by occupational threats and other forms of subordination, workers and their representatives are inclined to accept unfair working conditions and business practices potentially dangerous to health and environment (Montuschi, 1976).…”

Section: Treadmill Of Production Just Transition and Theories Of Indmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Unlike ToP theory, JT assumes that unions’ ability to mediate and aggregate interests is crucial to mitigating the social effects of the transition to a low-carbon economy (Lipsig-Mumme and McBride, 2015; Räthzel and Uzzell, 2013). Compared to ToP theory, however, the concept of JT is more nebulous and has controversial implications for industrial relations (Hampton, 2015; Räthzel and Uzzell, 2011; Stevis and Felli, 2015), and its application is likely to be shaped by resources and constraints.…”

Section: Treadmill Of Production Just Transition and Theories Of Indmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In principle, the three main Italian unions have evolved along the three logics of union action identified by Hyman (2001), which have a parallel in Hampton’s (2015) classification of JT approaches: the radical transformation perspective , adopted by class-oriented unions (CGIL); the neoliberal discourse , adopted by market-oriented unions (CISL); the ecological modernization approach , embraced by society-oriented unions (UIL). Despite this, views and policies of central-level actors in Italy swing within these taxonomies, and do not necessarily translate into coherent actions at local level.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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From Treadmill of Production to Just Transition and Beyond

Tomassetti

2020

European Journal of Industrial Relations

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Drawing on Treadmill of Production (ToP) and Just Transition (JT) theories, the article proposes a comparative analysis of the labour/environment nexus, evident across Europe and epitomized in the case of the Italian industrial relations system. The research shows continuity between ToP and JT. Despite ToP being the dominant logic of collective action during much of the modern (post-Second World War) industrial era, a long wave of JT can be identified from the late 1960s, as Italian union struggles for decent and healthier working environments contributed to making production processes more sustainable for the broader environment and communities far beyond the workplace. This long wave of JT is nowadays reinforced and made more visible by an explicit integration of labour and environmental protection through collective bargaining and social partnerships. In many cases, however, labour and capital interests still prevail over environmental ones and new dimensions of ToP emerge in the JT era.

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Section: Treadmill Of Production Just Transition and Theories Of Indmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Treadmill Of Production Just Transition and Theories Of Indmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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From Treadmill of Production to Just Transition and Beyond

Tomassetti

2020

European Journal of Industrial Relations

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“…At Vestas, occupiers also put forward an argument that counterpoised the viability of their factory with restructuring. Given the context of growing demand for green energy, Vestas' large market share of the wind turbine market and healthy profits, the company was in a position to take advantage of these favourable conditions (Hampton, 2015). Workers were angered by announcements to shift production and hire an extra 5,000 employees across China, the US and Spain due to apparently more attractive commercial opportunities (Webb, 2009).…”

Section: Macro and Structural Factorsmentioning

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Mobilizing solidarity in factory occupations: Activist responses to multinational plant closures

Gibbs

Kerr

2020

Economic and Industrial Democracy

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Factory occupations are rare and sporadic events which shed light on the processes associated with the collective mobilization of workers’ power. This article utilizes Kelly’s agential and Atzeni’s structural explanations of worker mobilization to examine two disputes which took place during Britain’s long experience of deindustrialization: the occupations of Caterpillar’s tractor factory in Uddingston, Scotland, during 1987 and Vestas’ wind turbine plant on the Isle of Wight during 2009. Each occupation shared the context of multinational divestment and collective workforce grievance based on a common perception that their plant was economically viable and vital to the local economy. However, contrasting sources of leadership mobilized this sentiment in each case: union stewards from within Caterpillar, socialist activists from outside at Vestas. The article concludes that an effective explanation of occupations must synthesize structural and agential factors, emphasizing the coalescing role of activist networks and workers’ perceptions of their labour’s social utility.

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“…This is where the work in sustainability transitions could more usefully engage with the framework of the 'just transition' as advocated in the trade union movements (ILO 2015;ACTU 2016), as well as geographical and sociological perspectives that have explored issues of deindustrialization in terms of the temporal, place-based and political dynamics entailed in such processes. Trade Unions are thinking hard about issues of work and justice in relation to climate change and energy and phase out in particular (Hampton 2015), yet they remain elusive actors in sustainability transitions literatures.…”

Section: Towards the Just Transition In The Context Of Deindustrializmentioning

confidence: 99%