{"id":83279,"date":"2026-05-06T21:08:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/?p=83279"},"modified":"2026-05-06T21:11:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:11:06","slug":"why-climate-movement-marches-workers-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/story\/83279\/why-climate-movement-marches-workers-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the climate movement marches for workers\u2019 rights\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On International Worker\u2019s Day, Greenpeace activists and volunteers joined our trade union allies in the streets around the world because we are united by common values.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DYAh7GhCBjT\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\"background:#FFF;border:0;border-radius:3px;margin: 1px;max-width:540px;min-width:326px;padding:0;width:99.375%;width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px);width:calc(100% - 2px)\"><div style=\"padding:16px\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DYAh7GhCBjT\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\"background:#FFFFFF;line-height:0;padding:0 0;text-align:center;text-decoration:none;width:100%\" target=\"_blank\"> <div style=\"flex-direction: row;align-items: center\"> <div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 50%;flex-grow: 0;height: 40px;margin-right: 14px;width: 40px\"><\/div> <div style=\"flex-direction: column;flex-grow: 1;justify-content: center\"> <div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;margin-bottom: 6px;width: 100px\"><\/div> <div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;width: 60px\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div style=\"padding: 19% 0\"><\/div> <div style=\"height:50px;margin:0 auto 12px;width:50px\"><\/div><div style=\"padding-top: 8px\"> <div style=\"color:#3897f0;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:550;line-height:18px\">View this post on Instagram<\/div><\/div><div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0\"><\/div> <div style=\"flex-direction: row;margin-bottom: 14px;align-items: center\"><div> <div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 50%;height: 12.5px;width: 12.5px\"><\/div> <div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;height: 12.5px;width: 12.5px;flex-grow: 0;margin-right: 14px;margin-left: 2px\"><\/div> <div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 50%;height: 12.5px;width: 12.5px\"><\/div><\/div><div style=\"margin-left: 8px\"> <div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 50%;flex-grow: 0;height: 20px;width: 20px\"><\/div> <div style=\"width: 0;height: 0;border-top: 2px solid transparent;border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4;border-bottom: 2px solid transparent\"><\/div><\/div><div style=\"margin-left: auto\"> <div style=\"width: 0px;border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4;border-right: 8px solid transparent\"><\/div> <div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;flex-grow: 0;height: 12px;width: 16px\"><\/div> <div style=\"width: 0;height: 0;border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4;border-left: 8px solid transparent\"><\/div><\/div><\/div> <div style=\"flex-direction: column;flex-grow: 1;justify-content: center;margin-bottom: 24px\"> <div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;margin-bottom: 6px;width: 224px\"><\/div> <div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;width: 144px\"><\/div><\/div><\/a><p style=\"color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17px;margin-bottom:0;margin-top:8px;overflow:hidden;padding:8px 0 7px;text-align:center;white-space:nowrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DYAh7GhCBjT\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\"color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:17px;text-decoration:none\" target=\"_blank\">A post shared by Greenpeace International \ud83c\udf0d (@greenpeace)<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/blockquote>\n<script src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n\n<p>Greenpeace organisations all over the world are also facing the same coordinated attacks from the same forces seeking to undermine rights, protections and democratic freedoms.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>It will take a united movement to face down the corporate bullies and autocrats who are trying to grab control of our rights and freedoms.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>For too long, environmental activism has been viewed as a separate movement from trade unionism or human rights or press freedom. In reality, our struggles are interconnected and our successes are interdependent. We are stronger together.<\/p>\n\n<p>The world is resisting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/act\/time-to-resist\/\">billionaire takeover<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/act\/stop-corporate-intimidation\/\">increasing corporate impunity<\/a>: an insidious alliance of corporate bullies, oligarchs, and autocrats who are aggressively threatening our rights and freedoms. Billionaires and the reactionary forces they bankroll are actively trying to roll back decades of hard-won environmental, labour and civic protections, pointing the finger at the most vulnerable communities and seeking to divide the very people they exploit.<\/p>\n\n<p>It\u2019s time to resist. United!<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rising attacks on workers and environmental defenders&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n<p>Across the world, trade union leaders are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ituc-csi.org\/ituc-global-rights-index-2025-EN\">facing charges, arbitrary arrests, and violent attacks<\/a> merely for <a href=\"https:\/\/publicservices.international\/resources\/news\/hong-kong-global-unions-stand-against-attacks-on-labour-leaders-?id=16339&amp;lang=en\">exercising their democratic freedoms<\/a>. At the same time, massive fossil fuel corporations are using their vast wealth to prosecute environmental defenders with abusive lawsuits.<br><br>We know that freedoms are not isolated. Union-busting; crackdowns on the right to organise, protest and strike; attacks on press freedom or the use of Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) are all part of the same pattern of intimidation by the same type of bullies. Our power to resist these attacks lies in our solidarity. We cannot stay silent when one sector is attacked. They want to isolate us from each other, as individuals but also as movements.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Defending the rights to free speech, strike and protest<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<p>In mid-April, the inaugural hearing in Greenpeace International\u2019s landmark anti-SLAPP case against Energy Transfer in the European Union <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/story\/82769\/energy-transfer-big-oil-slapp-court-case\/\">took place in Amsterdam<\/a>. With this case, Greenpeace International seeks relief from the ongoing harm caused by the oil pipeline giant\u2019s absurd back-to-back SLAPP lawsuits against Greenpeace International and Greenpeace organisations in the US for displaying solidarity with the Indigenous-led Standing Rock movement. Energy Transfer\u2019s SLAPP lawsuits are an attempt to silence a popular movement and we cannot let them win. Greenpeace International\u2019s case in Amsterdam is the biggest test to date of the new EU anti-SLAPP directive. It is bigger than Greenpeace because it can set a precedent for all popular, social movements around the world. It is an act of resistance against the billionaire-backed corporate playbook that seeks to export abusive litigations worldwide. The transposition of the EU directive into national laws, which needs to happen in each member state by 7 May must serve as a crucial shield to protect civil society from silencing tactics.<\/p>\n\n<p>Simultaneously, the global labour movement is fighting a historic battle to protect a crucial pillar of workers\u2019 rights: the right to strike. In October 2025, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and other international organisations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidaritycenter.org\/an-historic-week-for-workers-rights-at-the-international-court-of-justice\/\">presented oral arguments before the International Court of Justice<\/a> (ICJ) in <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2025\/10\/1166044\">defence of the fundamental freedom of workers<\/a> to withdraw their labour in order to stop abusive, unjust or unsafe working conditions and improve standards for all workers. Strikes have played a crucial part in history, winning for millions of workers worldwide the right to shorter working hours, safe contracts, vacation and better wages. Around the world, international labour organisations, like ITUC, <a href=\"https:\/\/publicservices.international\/resources?id=16518\">Public Services International<\/a> (PSI),and <a href=\"https:\/\/uniglobalunion.org\/news\/1-may-demand-the-world-we-deserve\/\">UNI Global Union<\/a> are working tirelessly to defend workers\u2019 rights and safety. Yet there are still two&nbsp; billion workers who lack formal contracts and social protections. Among them are countless <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ituc-csi.org\/platform-work\">platform workers<\/a>, many of them migrants, subjected to the tyranny of Big Tech billionaires and fighting alongside the ITUC to win an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilo.org\/\">International Labour Organisation<\/a> convention on platform work. In many workplaces workers still risk their lives, collapsing from heat or exhaustion. By fighting for the right to strike and a convention on platform work, we are facing down bullying employers everywhere.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Corporate bullies fear people power&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n<p>There is no doubt that billionaire corporate bullies and autocrats know that we, the people, can band together, face them down, and win.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>They want us isolated, but we are joining together, finding common ground, and forging deeper connections. This&nbsp; International Workers\u2019 Day, the&nbsp; growing solidarity was on display as citizens around the world \u2014including environmental activists and Greenpeace staff and volunteers \u2014 marched united.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>It\u2019s time to resist! Together!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\t\t\t<section\n\t\t\tclass=\"boxout post-77771 \"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-category=\"Take Action Boxout\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-action=\"Image\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-label=\"n\/a\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"cover-card-overlay\"\n\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/act\/stop-corporate-intimidation\/\" \n\t\t\t><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2024\/10\/d7cbdfda-gp0su1uh3-1024x683.jpg\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsrcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2024\/10\/d7cbdfda-gp0su1uh3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2024\/10\/d7cbdfda-gp0su1uh3-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2024\/10\/d7cbdfda-gp0su1uh3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2024\/10\/d7cbdfda-gp0su1uh3-510x340.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2024\/10\/d7cbdfda-gp0su1uh3.jpg 1200w\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsizes=\"(min-width: 1000px) 358px, (min-width: 780px) 313px, 88px\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\talt=\"Free Speech Message Delivered to Energy Transfer in Dallas. \u00a9 Laura Buckman \/ Greenpeace\" title=\"Free Speech Message Delivered to Energy Transfer in Dallas. \u00a9 Laura Buckman \/ Greenpeace\"\n\t\t\t\t\/>\n            \t\t\t<div class=\"boxout-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"boxout-heading medium\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-ga-category=\"Take Action Boxout\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-ga-action=\"Title\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-ga-label=\"n\/a\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/act\/stop-corporate-intimidation\/\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tStop corporate intimidation\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"boxout-excerpt\">Tell Energy Transfer and other corporate bullies: Stop your attacks on free speech.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t                                    <a\n                        class=\"btn btn-primary\"\n                        data-ga-category=\"Take Action Boxout\"\n                        data-ga-action=\"Call to Action\"\n                        data-ga-label=\"n\/a\"\n                        href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/act\/stop-corporate-intimidation\/\"\n                        \n                    >\n                        Add your name\n                    <\/a>\n                \t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/section>\n\t\n<p><em>Sanna Ghotbi &amp; 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