No Green Deal without a Social Deal

Our way of doing business and our understanding of prosperity and growth must change fundamentally in view of the challenge of the climate crisis. In contrast to simple climate change denial, this transformation process requires enormous political efforts: real wealth taxation, the fight against increasing income inequality and good work instead of precarious and insecure work. The state and its economic policy are required, specifically investment programs and an active industrial policy towards a climate-neutral future.

In a hybrid workshop, the participants from the FES, the DGB and trade union representatives from various European countries, including France, Italy and Spain, discussed trade union demands for the Green Deal presented by the EU Commission and for employee participation this upcoming transformation. The representatives of the DGB were on site in the conference room of the FES, the speakers from other European countries were connected via zoom. The participants were also able to bring in their questions and contributions to the discussion via Zoom.

You can read the detailed report on the hybrid workshop "No Green Deal without a Social Deal" from 16 October 2020 in the FES Berlin here.