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"So our Green New Deal must focus on empowering workers in high carbon or polluting industries, and trade unions must have the voice they need to lead the design of any green jobs guarantee."
"So our Green New Deal must focus on empowering workers in high carbon or polluting industries, and trade unions must have the voice they need to lead the design of any green jobs guarantee."
"But it must also reflect the changing world of work itself, with new jobs created to increase democracy and ownership in the workplace, and starting to establish shorter working weeks as the norm, without a loss in pay."
"So called ‘fiscal rules’, gov targets for debt and borrowing, leave gov hamstrung in its attempts to accelerate the green transformation to avert or manage otherwise intolerable envirnmntl change. These rules, the very definition of irresponsible policy making, need to change."
