7.00 Welcome – Eve Hill

7.05 Leicestershire Labour for a Green New Deal – Paul Fleming

7.10 1st Speaker Matt Wrack – Fire Brigades Union . What is the legacy of the Labour Party 2019 Conference policy? How we deal with complicated issues such as transitioning jobs from fossil fuel industry to renewable industry. How to engage with trades unions? What do we need to do next?

7.30 2nd Speaker Meg Baker – Students Organising for Sustainability-UK (SOS-UK). The student perspective and the role of education (for developing knowledge, skills and competencies) in transitioning to a just and low carbon economy

7.45 3rd speaker – Graham Petersen - Greener Jobs Alliance. Examples of the types of jobs that are currently transitioning to the future low carbon economy

8.00 Discussion

8.25 Sum up – Chris Willars - President Leicester and District Trades Union Council to summarise what this means for Leicester and Leicestershire

8.30 Close – Eve Hill

The purpose of Leicester & District Trades Union Council (L&DTUC) is to bring together union branches at a local level to campaign around issues affecting working people in their workplaces and local communities. We meet every month to support workers in struggle, discuss issues of interest to union members and organise events such as May Day, Workers Memorial Day, and public meetings. We are affiliated to and liaise with the TUC at regional and national level.

Please get your union branch to affiliate and send delegates. For further details please email our Secretary, Sarah Seaton (sarah.seaton@gmail.com) or our President, Chris Willars (titwillars@hotmail.com).

For more informatiion about Labour for a Green New Deal see www.labourgnd.uk/

The Fire Brigade's Union www.fbu.org.uk/

Students Organising for Sustainability-UK www.sos-uk.org

Greener Jobs Alliance www.greenerjobsalliance.co.uk/

Labour’s 2019 manifesto offered a clear plan for a million green jobs - by building publicly-owned wind farms, retrofitting the UK’s housing stock to provide warmer homes for all, planting 2 billion trees, upgrading the country’s dangerously insufficient flood defences, investing in localised power generation and in new forms of tidal power- now is the time to build on this demand, offering good, green jobs to every part of the country. The pandemic has also exposed the fact that good quality broadband is now an essential human right. Rolling out this broadband is just one example of the new jobs could be created when implementing Labour for a Green New Deal polices.