The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) united with activists on Friday to demand urgent and concrete actions to stop climate change ahead of the UN Climate Summit in New York.

As part of the global climate action week, an ETUC delegation took part in a major demonstration in Brussels organised by the Youth for Climate group.

ETUC Confederal Secretary Ludovic Voet told the demonstration:

“We are here as trade unionists because everything we have been fighting for since our movement was born – social justice, workers’ rights, health and safety and decent wages for all – will be in danger if we don’t stop the climate crisis.”

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