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Futureproofing manufacturing case studies

These case studies are part of a worker-led transitions series, highlighting international examples where workers across sectors are playing an important role in the transition of their workplaces, helping to secure good quality work and shape their industries into the future.

Cement workers fighting for environmental health and workforce upskilling

Workers in Zimbabwe are ensuring the green transition protects jobs and health by advocating environmental improvements, retraining, and inclusion in company planning. Read more

How informal brickmakers are working to improve conditions and build collective power

Argentina’s brickmakers, through UOLRA, are improving dangerous informal working conditions and driving a worker-led transition toward safer, fairer and more sustainable production. Read more

Automotive site transitions to Europe's first circular economy factory

Renault’s Flins factory was transformed from car production into Europe’s first circular economy site, with unions helping secure jobs and retraining for workers during the transition. Read more

Jeepney drivers leading the charge for a fair transport system future

How Filipino drivers are fighting for workers' rights in transport modernisation. Read more

Workers' cooperative fights to futureproof glass manufacturing

How glass workers established a workers' cooperative to save livelihoods and secure local manufacturing. Read more

Workers champion carbon capture in the cement industry

How Brevik workers helped secure the first industrial-scale CCS facility in cement and future livelihoods. Read more

Electric vehicle transition at Vauxhall Ellesmere Port

How automotive workers protected their hard-won rights during the transition to electric vehicles. Read more

GKN workers in Florence fight to take over ownership of their factory and win a worker-led transition

GKN Florence workers are transforming a closed factory into a green, worker-run cooperative - powered by solidarity, solar panels, and a bold vision for just transition. Read more

German steelworkers win a green steel transition

Steelworkers at Salzgitter have helped lead Germany’s first green hydrogen steelmaking transition - securing jobs, public funding, and a low-carbon future through determination and union-driven planning. Read more

Ex-auto workers win job deal at electric vehicle factory in Ohio

UAW wins union jobs, higher wages, and job transfers for former GM workers at new Ultium EV battery plant in Warren, Ohio – reviving a historic auto town. Read more

Ratcliffe Power: a fair transition for workers at the last coal plant in Britain

Unionised workers at Ratcliffe-on-Soar secured retraining and redeployment through early, collaborative transition planning with their employer. Read more