Transcript SA Unions Climate Change Conference

AEU Presentation
SA UNIONS CLIMATE CHANGE
CONFERENCE
CLIMATE CHANGE - THE ISSUE IS URGENT!
 Strong
personal concern from some of our
members for some time
 BUT
organisationally we have been very
slow to respond
 Our
response has been both
internal and external
“A good organiser must be able to charge an
issue with a supreme sense of urgency.”
CLIMATE CHANGE - EDUCATION
Start with education to organise people and
give hope that things can be different if we
work together
 Our members have much to offer and show us

“We educate people in order to organise
them. We don’t organise people in order
to educate them.”
ADAPTED FROM THE BROTHERHOOD OF ST LAWRENCE 4 POWER MODEL
• Support Organisations
• Local Council
• Community activists
• AEU Federal Office/
Branches/members
• Information/education
of staff 2007-9
• AEU/CLEAN
Environmental
Conference 2008
• AEU Federal Policy
Decision
• Federal Government &
International Legislation?
Information
/ Education
Relationships
Legislation
/ Policy
Resources
• Staff Environmental C’tee,
academics, agencies,
members, Climate
Emergency Movement
• AEU union education $
THE FUTURE ....... . . . .
Connecting workers WITH the climate
emergency movement
 Community climate emergency activists are
well organised and educated
 Community alliances are extremely
powerful
 Relationships should be forged on
common interests and urgent issues

RUNNING OUT OF TIME
Community
movement
Our
interests
are
common!
Labor
movement