South Africa: Why Climate Activists and Unions Should Team Up

Worker unions have the power to mobilise against the lack of action on climate change in South Africa and add their voice to the call for a transition to renewable energy.

September saw one of the world's largest ever protests. More than seven million people took to the streets to demand action on climate change as part of the first Global Climate Strike. Little noticed among the thousands of protests taking place across the world and dozens in South Africa was a trade union-led picket outside the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy in Tshwane.

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