Find motions that have been passed so far below.

What you can do?

Pass a heat strike motion at your branch or national conference. We’ve prepared draft motions for you to use or adapt, and some top tips on how to get your union behind setting a maximum working temperature.

Ideas on how to do it

  1. First propose to speak about heatwaves and worker health & safety at your branch
  2. Then propose to bring a motion, you can see our model and others unions motions below
  3. Talk to others in your branch about why you think it’s an important thing to support
  4. Pass the motion at your branch
  5. Follow it up by keeping heat strike and the actions you agreed on your agenda
  6. Take similar motions to your trades council or national conference to pass there.

Model Motion

(469 words)

With last year the hottest year on record, we are likely to  experience record  breaking heat again this summer, putting many people at risk around the World and also in the UK, especially the elderly, infants and disabled people, but also workers working outdoors with no protection.

We need workers and their Trade Unions, as well as Climate Justice activists and organisations to unite in their struggle to build a mass movement for a change, where the poorest don’t pay the price for climate change. The Climate Crisis is a Trade Union issue whether it is about a Just Transition and defending jobs or health and safety.

This Branch / Trades Council / conference welcomes the fact that the theme for 2024's Workers' Memorial Day is/was “Climate Change & Workers’ Health” as the impacts of climate change become increasingly an occupational hazard and a health and safety issue for Trade Unions. Deaths at work and employment disruption as a result of global warming, not to mention occupational illnesses caused by polluting fossil fuels, are rising everywhere, and are only expected to increase.

This Branch / Trades Council / conference therefore agrees to campaign for the following demands: