The association between suicidal risk and ADHD comorbid with mood disorders in adults.
Authors: Hallal C, Kassab A, El-Dirani E, Toum Y, Khalil LA, Zahran F, Louak M, Khalil RB
Journal: European Psychiatry
mental health
psychology
open access
Abstract
Climate change presents challenges for workers and unions. Mitigating its effects and adjusting to low-carbon emissions in the production of goods and services requires major restructuring likely to impact the livelihoods of workers and their communities. For unions representing these workers, climate change poses important strategic dilemmas. In addition to potential job losses, changes to work organisation, health and safety risks, and demands for concessions on working conditions are some of these challenges. Can workers gain a real voice in shaping the climate transition, and can collective bargaining and social dialogue be mobilised to ensure worker input on strategic decisions? Does the climate crisis create an opportunity to expand democracy at work? Or, faced with internal fragmentation, populism and its discontents, and unilateral employer and state actions, are workers and their unions more likely to be passengers, obstacles, hostages or victims in climate adjustment? Worker agency, their capacity to act on climate change, is often overlooked as solutions tend to focus on public policies and firm adaptation and mitigation strategies. We believe that the exclusion of workers and their unions undermines the acceptability of the solutions most likely to address the urgency of climate change. Work is at the epicentre of efforts to achieve a low-carbon economy (; ), but workers and unions are too often portrayed as passive recipients rather than as agents of change. Yet many unions are taking a more active role. While some unions oppose fossil fuel phase-outs and work with employers to delay implementation of climate targets (; ), others partner with environmental groups and community organisations to advocate for a low-carbon economy (). This can happen through collective bargaining, works councils or other forms of social dialogue, pressure on public policy for green industrial policy, income support for climate adjustment and retraining for skills development (; ; ).