A Just and Green Recovery for Scotland
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About this Event
This pandemic has exposed the failures in our society - but it has also brought people together to demand that we don't go back
We refuse to accept a return to 'normal' where one in five households in Scotland were living in poverty, too many workers were on low pay and precarious contracts, climate and nature breakdown and years of austerity.
We have a chance to transform our society for the better, and together we can make it happen.
At this webinar we'll hear from people who are fighting to protect jobs and workers, to create a wellbeing economy, strengthen our public services including a national care service, a green recovery for nature and climate and a society.
Speakers include:
Dr Gemma Bone Dodds, Wellbeing Economy Alliance, on how we reprogramme our economy to work for people and planet.
Peter Kelly, Poverty Alliance, on how we tackle poverty as Scotland recovers from the impact of the pandemic.
Stephen Smellie, UNISON on protecting jobs and workers as furlough comes to an end, and proposals to create a new National Care Service.
Glasgow GP Dr Peter Cawston from Green Recovery for Health, sharing his perspectives on the impacts of the pandemic from within the health service and the future of the NHS.
Daniel Pacey, Universities and Colleges Union (UCU) rep at Heriot-Watt University, on their fight to stop job losses and cuts to education in the wake of the pandemic.
Caroline Rance, Friends of the Earth Scotland, on how we can put green jobs and climate action at the heart of the recovery plan for a fairer, greener Scotland.
This event is part of the Week of Action for Just & Green Recovery.