GFTU BGCM 2019 Minutes

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Any other speakers on this motion? If not, we will

move to the vote.

Motion 15 was CARRIED unanimously

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Moving on now to Motion 3 from the Bakers Union,

climate change.

MOTION 3 – CLIMATE CHANGE

SIS SARAH WOOLLEY (Bakers, food and Allied Workers Union) moved the following

motion:

This conference notes the irrefutable evidence that dangerous climate change

is driving unprecedented changes to our environment such as the devastating

flooding witnessed in the UK in 2004.

The GFTU further notes the risk to meeting the challenge of climate change

with the likes of Donald Trump withdrawing the US from the Paris Climate

Agreement. Similarly, Brexit negotiations and incoherent UK Government

policy risk undermining measures to achieve the UK carbon reduction targets.

The GFTU welcomes the report by the Transnational Institute Reclaiming

Public Services: How cities and citizens are turning back privatization, which

details the global trend to re-municipalise public services including energy.

The GFTU believes that to combat climate change effectively and move

towards a low-carbon economy we cannot leave this to the markets and

therefore need a strong role for the public sector in driving the measures

needed to undertake this transition.

To this end, this BGCM calls on the GFTU to:

(1) Work with the Labour Party and others that advocate for an end to the UK’s

rigged energy system to bring it back into public ownership and democratic

control

(2) Advocate for a mass programme of retrofit and insulation of Britain’s homes and

public buildings

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