Public and Commercial Services Union

When it comes to climate change you don't have to act on your own - Climate Solidarity is a Trade Union response.

Climate Solidarity will create 275 climate action groups in PCS formed of members cutting their carbon emissions and affecting wider change in their workplace or local community. Our climate action groups are about leading by example to help make the kind of society we want to live in.

We have selected a range of activities with themes on transport, energy use and tackling food waste with materials to suit everyone from those new to environmental activism to fully fledged green reps. Our action groups can play a crucial role in supporting negotiations, making changes at work and inspiring community action.

For the rights of working people to be protected trade unionists need to be shaping the low carbon economy. Group action, peer-to-peer learning and democratic accountability have a new relevance in getting to, and thriving in, a low carbon world.

Be part of Climate Solidarity: register on our website, fill out our survey and download everything you need to start an action group. Come along to one of our free training courses to help get you off to a flying start.

See the panel to the right for details of upcoming action group training sessions.

PCS partnered the Climate Outreach and Information Network (COIN) and three other unions - CWU, NUT and UCU - in the successful bid to Defra’s ‘Greener Living Fund’ for Climate Solidarity and setting up action groups through the workplace will build on and complement existing workplace environmental programmes such as the TUC’s GreenWorkplaces projects and help raise awareness of climate change within branches.

Find out more

For more information visit the Climate Solidarity website.