Public and Commercial Services Union

Find out more about the green, fair trade and ethical consumer campaigns we support.

Tar sands campaign

Pensions fund members across the UK are being asked to support environmental resolutions at BP and Shell AGMs this spring. The resolutions call on the companies to report on the costs of the Tar Sands project in Canada,  an ‘unconventional’ oil reserve  which produces three times the amount of greenhouse gases as conventional oil extraction.

In January Fairpensions, a charity that campaigns for responsible investment in the pensions industry, co-ordinated the filing of resolutions against both Shell and BP by a diverse group of investors including PCS' investment managers.

To take action to ensure investors support the resolutions go to the Tar Sands page.

Campaign Against Climate Change

PCS are joining together with the Campaign Against Climate Change in a national campaign to get the government to employ a million unemployed workers to save the climate. You can join the campaign now, by taking part in this e-action and emailing your MP.

Be a trade hero

The Trade Justice Movement, to which PCS is affiliated, is asking supporters to write to the European Union trade commissioner Baroness Ashton asking her to stop unfair EU trade deals with Africa, Asia and Latin America, to rethink EU trade policy so that it prioritises development, environmental sustainability and human rights and opens up trade to better democratic accountability and scrutiny.

To take action see the Trade Justice Movement website. To order postcards to distribute in your worklplace email green@pcs.org.uk or call Anne Elliott-Day on 020 7801 2727 x 2362.

Renewable energy

In line with policy agreed at conference in 2006 to support and promote renewable energy, PCS this year joined a coalition of green organisations and other unions to put forward an amendment to the Energy Bill.

This aims to introduce a ‘feed-in tariff’ - an incentive to boost the production of small-scale renewable energy. For more information and action you can take see the green energy page.

No to nuclear

We oppose government support for building another generation of nuclear power stations in the UK. Instead we believe there should be increased investment in clean, renewable technologies that would create more labour intensive jobs. Find out more on the 'say no to nuclear page'.

Greener transport

We believe the government’s plans to build a third runway at Heathrow are incompatible with winning the battle against climate change. Instead we support the development of an affordably priced, publicly owned, high speed rail network for the UK.

Let's clean up fashion

Labour Behind the Label's 'Let's Clean Up Fashion' campaign is about exposing the exploitation of workers who produce clothing and footwear for our high street shops.

Research carried out by Labour Behind the Label shows that high street retailers are not seriously tackling this issue despite claiming they are committed to a living wage for workers.

Labour Behind the Label has produced a series of postcards that people can send to shops asking what they are doing about this.

If you would like copies of these to distribute in your workplace contact email green@pcs.org.uk

For more information about this campaign see the Let's Clean up Fashion website.

Boycott Coca-Cola

PCS supports the international boycott of Coca-Cola called by Sinaltrainal, the Colombian Food and Drink Workers' Union.

This is in protest at Coca-Cola's alleged abuses of workers' rights and of trade unionists in its bottling plants in Colombia.

See the Boycott Coca-Cola pages for more information and to find out how you can get involved.