The CGT and more than 130 organizations that participated this week in an International Trade Union Forum on Ecological and Social Transitions committed this Saturday in a final call to cooperate with a view to the next world climate conference (COP26) in Glasgow. “We are therefore making a commitment to continue our cooperation, with a first step in sight: the COP26 in Glasgow in November of this year. We will bring our demands there and work with other forces to build a broad and united movement towards an ecological, social and democratic alternative ”, they write.

This "call to make possible a true just and united transition", in the words of CGT General Secretary Philippe Martinez, is addressed to other union forces and their allies.

The text lists six “axes of demands” to achieve this: the need to include workers in decision-making processes;

to “carry the slogan of public control of production and activities that have an impact on the environment”;

to plan “at the global level” for a response with the horizon “justice and real equality between peoples”.

"Impose conditionality criteria"

He also proposes to fight head-on "for democracy" and "for social and environmental progress", to "rebalance the trade-offs which currently prevail, particularly in international trade, in order to make effective environmental and social standards which are generally absent", and “to impose strict conditionality criteria on stimulus plans around the world”. The signatories underline the need to build “alliances to bring [these] demands in a united and broad way and to make them happen”.

"These alliances are linked to the struggles for gender equality and the fight against systemic racism", they specify.

The forum, a first, was organized by the CGT in partnership with NGOs (Global Labor Institute, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Trade Unions for Energy Democracy, Alter Summit).

It brought together virtually more than 130 organizations from 50 countries, around 17 workshops organized throughout the week by videoconference.

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