Union boss and environmentalist bury the hatchet in the Hunter | npomalley
In the bruised days after Labor’s shock national election defeat last May, union boss Steve Murphy, a Maitland boy, thought long and hard about what went wrong – and came to a very different conclusion than the Hunter Valley’s most prominent ALP figure, Joel Fitzgibbon.
Murphy’s view – one that is far from universally shared – was if Labor could solve the culture war over coal and emissions in regions like the Hunter it could campaign on both climate action and job creation. “It was old-fashioned workers education,” says Wade, who addressed the group of about 25 delegates about the history of co-operation between the labour and environment movements.
Around those tables, says Murphy, he learnt his members had already detected not only a change in the climate, but evidence of the capital flight from investments in fossil fuel industries around the world. In coming months LEAN and the AMWU will launch a movement called the Hunter Jobs Alliance, which they see as a vehicle for union members and local environment groups to support both investments in long-term jobs in emerging low carbon and climate action.
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