< Previous | Contents | Next >
Partner with Unions Around the World to Build a Global Movement
Unions around the world are mobilizing to reverse climate change. Given the worldwide scope of the climate crisis–and the international scope of capital–it is important for the IAM to have a strategy that goes beyond US and Canadian borders. The IAM has longstanding relationships with international labor organizations such as the Building and Wood Workers' International (BWI), IndustriALL Global Union, and the International Labor Organization (ILO). The global nature of the climate crisis reinforces the need for international unions to share information, strategies, and resources.
Forging new relationships with unions around the world can unearth innovative organizing strategies and lay the foundation for cross-border organizing of global supply chains. In its
378 Ndugga, Pillai, and Published, “Climate-Related Health Risks Among Workers.”
capacity as a member of BWI, the IAM has organized international solidarity to oppose the unsustainable deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.379 In 2023, IndustriALL and the European Transport Workers’ Federation published a report on decarbonizing the continent’s transit sector, including an outline joint employer-union dialogue on reaching net-zero emissions in aviation.380 International cooperation will be critical to solving a global problem like climate change.