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🚨 BREAKING: Over half of oil and gas workers say conditions have worsened over the past five years - despite record-breaking industry profits.

A new survey finds that 27% of workers are actively taking action to get out of the sector, as just 16% say they are happy in their job. But there’s not enough support available to help them transition to new industries.

Workers want government action on jobs, training and investment in the transition. Governments and industry need to start listening to them.

👉 Tell our leaders what workers are demanding - share this post and tag your representatives.

Read the full survey here: www.platformlondon.org/transition

📢📢 We must work collectively to disrupt fossil fuel extraction and genocide.

This toolkit was co-produced by a coalition of grassroots groups and allies. Help us share it as widely as we can.

Disrupting Energy Corporations for the Liberation of Palestine Alliances, strategies and tactics grassroots movements can use to target Eni and Dana Petroleum towards a global energy embargo for Palestine

📢 👇 We’re hiring - help us spread the word!

🟠 3-4 days per week
🟠 £46,030 pro rata
🟠 Based in, or working from, North East Scotland

This new role will organise with energy workers across the north east of Scotland and work closely with unions and climate groups.

Full details: platformlodon.org/vacancies
Deadline: 13 May

📢📢 Climate groups and unions are UNITED.

We can’t rely on industry bosses to deliver a just energy transition. Tomorrow’s must include ringfenced funding for energy workers and our communities.

✍️ Email your MP - link in stories!

🚨📈 BREAKING: BP has announced $2.3 BILLION profit for the last quarter. Fresh from ditching their pledge to move away from oil and gas, they’ve promised to keep investing in fossil fuels to ‘grow the value of BP’.

Last week, revealed BP closing in on Parliament, with an ad campaign plastering the walls of Westminster tube station. But dig deeper than the headline profits and shameless billboards, and these figures tell a different story…

💰 BP has raked in £44.5billion since the start of the energy crisis ( ).

💰💰 Last year, for every £1 BP spent on low carbon investments, they invested £11 billion in fossil fuels ().

Big oil companies will always put profit over people and planet. They have no place in our energy transition.

NEW 🚨: We’ve joined 60+ climate organisations to call on the incoming government to fund a just transition for North Sea workers and communities.

Alongside phasing out oil + gas, the next government must commit to:

🔨A UK-wide industrial strategy, including substantial investment in domestic manufacturing and skills; expansion of publicly owned energy; and reorganising the tax system for public good.

✊🏽Expanding sectoral collective bargaining across the energy industry and supply chain.

✅ And a Jobs Guarantee, that ensures every oil and gas worker can find equivalent, alternative employment or funded retraining

A plan that transforms our broken energy system; invests in workers + communities; and protects our planet is within reach and must be delivered before the end of the next Parliament.

🔗 Full letter in stories and bio

⚡️What does a just transition look like for the North East?

Join us for a special pre-election screening of OFFSHORE at POP Recs in Sunderland.

🗓️Sunday 28th April at 2pm

20 minute film screening + Q&A and discussion

Tickets are free - register now ⤵️
https://bit.ly/3TQ2JNA

Pop Recs Ltd Sunderland Trades Union Council Climate Action North Sunderland, UK Pink-collar Gallery

❤️ Do you centre compassion, care and liberation in your work? Are you committed to anti-oppression and building more equitable workplaces?

Join our staff team!
Deadline 2 May.
platformlondon.org/vacancies

⚡ Over the decades, Platform has been a testbed for radical ways of working - from our socially just waging system to ethical fundraising.

Can you build on what we’ve learned and help us develop new approaches? Join our team!

platformlondon.org/vacancies

The seeds have been sown, and the recipe written. The transition towards a just food system is underway! 🌱⚡️

30 community leaders, activists, residents and local organisations in Tower Hamlets have created a blueprint for a sustainable and socially just food system in Tower Hamlets - RECIPES FOR A REVOLUTION: Reclaiming Our Food System

The culmination of three years of community-led research based in Tower Hamlets, London, this work connects the borough’s long history of resisting injustice with contemporary issues of gentrification, poverty and profiteering. It examines the root causes of food injustice globally and offers community-led solutions to usher in a fairer food system for all ✊🏽

Check it out through the link in our bio, and do share widely. Keep your eyes peeled here for the launch event!