North Sea: fight for the workers’ plan
As we enter another hot summer and emissions hit an all-time high, the Labour leadership sought headlines with a series of feeble announcements on environmental policy. Labour’s policies are an improvement compared to the denialists in charge of the Tory party, but far too timid as an answer to the ecological crisis. Rank-and-file offshore workers and environmentalist groups have published a set of demands for a worker-led just transition. The Our Power report calls for a wage guarantee and an offer of free retraining for workers made redundant as the oil fields are decommissioned. But at the...