“Unionists dare to enter the climate lions’ den”
die tageszeitung (taz)
For the first time, union leaders from Germany's mining unions met with representatives from the annual “climate camp” and local environmentalists in the Rhenish lignite coal mining region, reports Leonie Sontheimer in taz. While all agreed that protests against climate-damaging brown coal should be peaceful, they remain in different camps on the coal exit. Unionists want more time for workers to adjust to the structural change, in order to cushion the social and economic effects on the region, they write.
Read a CLEW factsheet on coal in Germany here.
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