Letter to the Prime Minister
25 June 2009
TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber has asked Prime Minister Gordon Brown to focus on job creation, action on global poverty and on climate change when he goes to the G8 next month in Italy.
The TUC, along with the global trade union movement, is very concerned that measures to tackle the deepening global jobs crisis have not yet been sufficient to tackle the challenges the world faces. We are particularly concerned that people are already talking about returning to business as usual, and exit strategies, before those affected most by the recession have seen a material improvement in their circumstances. Nor has there yet been sufficient progress made to have confidence that the Copenhagen Conference of the Parties in December will be successful in addressing the challenge of climate change.
The upcoming G8 Leaders Summit in L'Aquila, Italy represents a crucial opportunity to build on the success of the London Summit. So I urge you to use that opportunity to press for:
I attach a copy of the Global Unions' statement to the G8 Summit that provides detailed proposals building on the London Summit commitments by introducing a job-centred global recovery and sustainable growth plan that: maintains and creates jobs and strengthens incomes; fixes the financial and taxation systems; improves global governance; strengthens commitments to development; and generates green jobs and an ambitious global deal to tackle climate change.
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