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Climate change is a working class issue, delegates insist
CLIMATE change must be a treated as a working-class issue, trade unionists insisted today.
GMB delegates meeting at the union’s annual conference in Brighton backed a call to push for “practical steps” against rising global temperatures and their effect on workers in various industries.
The union voted to campaign for local authorities to adopt a heat action plan modelled on that drawn up in the Canadian city of Montreal.
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