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Major reform needed to secure ‘just’ green transition for offshore workers
By staff - Morning Star, March 6, 2023
INVESTMENT and reform of the energy sector are needed to secure a just green transition for offshore workers, unions and environmental campaigners are warning today.
A new report by transport union RMT, Friends of the Earth and others demands investment in ports and manufacturing as well as an offshore training passport for oil and gas workers moving to the renewables sector.
Offshore migrant workers must also get equal pay and a higher minimum wage should be available to all, the groups added.
RMT regional organiser Jake Molloy stressed employees must be “fully engaged and empowered in the process if we are to achieve a real just transition.”
“The lack of a real plan from politicians and industry is fuelling workforce discontent and disillusionment,” he said.
Friends of the Earth Scotland’s Mary Church said: “Our current energy system is destroying our climate, is unaffordable to millions and is failing the people who work in it.
“Failure from politicians to properly plan and support the transition to renewables is leaving workers totally adrift on the whims of oil and gas companies, and the planet to burn.”
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