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Oil rig anchored in the Cromarty Firth, Invergordon, September 10, 2021
THE Unite union today launched a major campaign warning North Sea workers will be “betrayed” if Labour pulls the plug on new oil and gas licences without a plan, warning an estimated 30,000 jobs would be pushed “over a cliff edge.”
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said his party would not grant licences in the North Sea but said it would continue with any licences already in operation.
The party’s biggest union backer has said the plans would be “dangerously premature and reckless.”
SHARON GRAHAM reflects on the lessons of Murdoch’s confrontation with print workers – and argues that, in an age of AI, automation and net zero, only early organisation, collective power and planning can stop history repeating itself
As fossil fuels have had their day, JOSIE MIZEN makes it clear that it is now the government’s responsibility to initiate the transition to alternative employment in a manner that is organised, efficient and effective
