GARY SMITH
Unions and energy companies must co-operate to reach net zero
The Times
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Answering the energy question is central to addressing the challenges of our time. The changes we need to make as an economy and society must be done with workers and not to them. It should be clear that if the transition to net zero is going to succeed then workers’ voices must be at the heart of the industrial planning needed to meet the UK’s decarbonisation goals and net-zero obligations.
Time is pressing. The UK has already suffered a lost decade, illustrated by the tens of thousands of wind power manufacturing jobs offshored to the rest of the world, the livelihoods of the oil and gas workers — who keep homes warm and the lights on — used as a political football, and steel
