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Unjust Transition

The Future for Fossil Fuel Workers

edited by Emily Eaton, Andrew Stevens & Sean Tucker

Publisher
Fernwood Publishing
Initial publish date
Mar 2024
Category
Unions, Labor & Industrial Relations, Natural Resource Extraction
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781773636726
    Publish Date
    Mar 2024
    List Price
    $29.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781773636740
    Publish Date
    Mar 2024
    List Price
    $28.99

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In 2019, Regina’s Co-op Refinery Complex (CRC), a subsidiary of Federated Co-operative, locked out Unifor Local 594 after collective bargaining negotiations failed. CRC used the transition to a “low carbon” future as the justification for concessions on working conditions and reducing the workers' pension plan. The lockout demonstrates what a “just transition” means to fossil fuel corporations: rollbacks of collective bargaining, worker rights, cooperative spirit and environmental justice. In the name of a new future, Federated Co-operative and the Saskatchewan government trampled all over important worker rights — the right to strike and picket, occupational health and safety, pensions and collective bargaining. It also highlights the sorry state of co-operative values in Canada. As corporations and governments are poised to make a transition that will be detrimental to workers and communities, this books argues that solidarity between unions and community movements is absolutely necessary to make the transition away from fossil fuels a just one.

About the authors

Emily Eaton is a professor in the department of geography and environmental studies at the University of Regina, in Treaty Four. She is a white settler doing research, teaching, and service devoted to addressing the climate and inequality crises at local and national scales and mapping pathways to transition that rectify the unjust colonial relationship that Canada has with Indigenous Peoples and marginalized communities.

Emily Eaton's profile page

Andrew Stevens is an associate professor in the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Regina. His research is situated in the sociology of work and employment, with a focus on collective action, migrant labour policy, labour studies and political economy. He co-founded and is an editor of Rankandfile.ca.

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Sean Tucker is a professor in the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Regina. He teaches and researches leadership and occupational health and safety.

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Excerpt: Unjust Transition: The Future for Fossil Fuel Workers (edited by Emily Eaton, Andrew Stevens & Sean Tucker)