A public meeting organised and hosted by Free Our Unions campaign, with guest speakers form a range of organisations including Earth Strike UK. Our window to stop and reverse worsening climate catastrophe is narrowing. To defeat climate change, we need to radical action from governments, and, ultimately, a change in [...]
Protest at Rio Tinto HQ Rio Tinto is a multinational metals and mining corporation, the largest by market capitalisation in the world. It is a world leader in the production of aluminium, iron ore, copper, uranium, coal, and diamonds. Rio Tinto has an appalling record: According to the Carbon Majors [...]
Free and active unions have a vital part to play in the just transition to a zero-carbon future. The anti-union and anti-strike legislation designed to suppress union activity is a direct obstacle to a greener world. Earth Strike UK: Empower the Unions is a new initiative by Earth Strike UK, [...]
Earth Strike UK: Empower the Unions is a new initiative by Earth Strike UK, supported by the Free Our Unions campaign. Empower the Unions aims to unite environmental activists and trade unionists to resist legislation that restricts our rights to organise and strike and empower unions to take the action [...]
Earth Strike UK invites you to take part in our fortnightly organising meetings, preparing for the COP26 summit. The summit will be taking place between 1st - 12th November 2021, and will be attended by world leaders to address the threat of climate change. We know that politicians cannot be [...]
Would you like to know more about Earth Strike UK and maybe even get involved?... Join our online workshop An Introduction to Earth Strike UK. We will be talking about how capitalism is driving the climate crisis, how we can use strikes and industrial action to stop it, and what [...]
Would you like to know more about Earth Strike UK and maybe even get involved?... Join our online talk An Introduction to Earth Strike UK. We will be talking about how capitalism is driving the climate crisis, how we can use strikes and industrial action to stop it, and what [...]
In October 2021, Earth Strike: Empower the Unions collaborated with Free Our Unions to launch a statement calling for joint struggle between the labour and climate movements against anti-strike laws which constrain workers’ ability to fight for radical action on the environment. This online meeting brings together labour and environmental activists [...]
Join us in London on the 26th of May for a demonstration in solidarity with the workers at Kavala Oil in Greece, who have all been laid off on mass by their employer, a London based oil and gas company called Energean. In just over a year Energean has: Announced [...]
The climate crisis is being driven by capitalism... the endless pursuit of profit at the expense of the environment and our wellbeing. We must use our collective power as workers to stop this crisis and secure a just future for us all. But how do we do that? Come and [...]
On 10 October the Free Our Unions campaign and Earth Strike: Empower the Unions are holding an assembly and protest at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) in London to oppose the threat of new anti-trade union laws that Liz Truss, in the context of the strike [...]
After a long hiatus... Bristol Earth Strike is back! We invite activists new and old to join us at our first meeting on Sunday 8th Jan at St Werbughs Community Centre from 3pm to discuss the state of the environmental movement and how we can take action. Earth Strike is [...]