Here is the London event Friday May 19th 7-11pm in Pelican House, 144 Cambridge Heath Road London E1 5QJ
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On 9 July 2021, the automotive factory GKN Florence made the Italian news: on that day, one email fired all of its 422 workers. This sparked a struggle that will go down in history: the factory takeover by the GKN workers’ permanent assembly, the Insorgiamo (Let’s rise up) slogan, the convergence between labour and environmental struggles, and much more.
As the struggle of workers organized in the Collettivo di Fabbrica (Factory Collective) opened up to institutional negotiations, they developed a strategy of convergence between working class struggles and climate justice struggles that led to four national marches and hundreds of initiatives across Italy.
The alliances between the two movements, united by the slogan “End of the Month, End of the World, Same Struggle,” overcame the prevailing paradigm that pits environmentalists and workers as naturally opposed.
The GKN dispute is on the edge. It could become either a further textbook case on how to shut down a workplace or a precedent to disrupt in a positive direction the methodology of struggle against layoffs and precarious employment, kickstarting a real ecological transition.
This event is part of the WE MAKE TOMORROW programme that the Climate Justice Coalition Trade Union Caucus is running to build workers power on climate and crisis. The series of events will dig into how rising energy prices, inflation, falling wages and the climate crisis are not only connected but actually being driven by the same systems.
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