Steve Gray, branch Green champion shares this new report sent by Ryan Morrison, Just Transition Campaigner from Friends of the Earth Scotland.
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The report released this week is called Offshore: oil and gas workers views on industry conditions and the energy transition. It is particularly relevant to the North East of Scotland.
The report builds on a survey of 1,383 offshore workers, revealing the impact of Covid-19 on their lives, their views on life in the industry generally and their hopes and solutions for the energy transition. In addition to the survey results shared, there are eight case studies in the report from the workers themselves, revealing an exhaustion with precarious employment in oil and gas and a huge appetite for alternative industries, including offshore wind and other renewables.
The report concludes with several recommendations, including the need for governments to engage in participatory policy-making with a representative section of the oil and gas workforce and their trade unions. We request that the government bodies and individuals listed in the report begin this process by meeting with a pool of survey respondents who have expressed interest in speaking with them.
Ryan says, “I hope you think its a useful piece of work in the Just Transition struggle! We want to continue working with workers, TUs and communities in crafting solutions for a just transition.”