@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2025.1333, 

TITLE={Trade union strategies and debates on the decarbonisation of the economy}, 
  
AUTHOR={Adrien Thomas
, Nadja Doerflinger, }, 
	
JOURNAL={Technology and Innovation}, 
	
VOLUME={10}, 

NUMBER={Issue 4}, 
	
YEAR={2025}, 

URL={https://www.openscience.fr/Trade-union-strategies-and-debates-on-the-decarbonisation-of-the-economy}, 
	
DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2025.1333}, 
	
ISSN={2399-8571}, 
	
ABSTRACT={The transition to a low-carbon economy is one of the major challenges ahead for trade unions. This raises the question of identifying and analysing the different strategies of European trade unions with regard to decarbonisation, especially in the manufacturing and energy sectors. Based on interviews and document analyses, our research indicates that unions adopt three types of strategies towards decarbonisation in the investigated industries: (1) opposition to decarbonisation policies, (2) hedging strategies seeking to minimize and/or delay regulation or (3) proactive support for decarbonisation policies. These union strategies are mainly rooted in sectoral economic interests mediated by unions’ ideological identities and understandings of union democracy.}}