Within the context of an accelerating climate emergency, the introduction frames the strategies and actions adopted by labour and unions to reduce carbon emissions that are presented in the articles contributing to this special issue. Industrial relations scholarship, which has been slow to address the climate emergency, has focussed on the jobs versus environment dilemma, the role of unions, technical innovation versus social unionism, and just transition approaches. While labour and union approaches in different sectors across Europe are largely confined to variants of ecological modernization, a more proactive transformative strategy opening up an alternative eco-socialist vision for the future is emerging. The issue highlights the contradictions in union strategies, the drivers of change and the way forward in pursuance of a green economy through a focus on the roles of government and the public sector, the organization of labour and the labour process, and education and training.

在加速的气候紧急情况下，引言构成了劳工和工会为减少碳排放而采取的战略和行动，这些文章在促成这一特殊问题的文章中进行了介绍。劳资关系奖学金在解决气候紧急情况方面一直进展缓慢，一直侧重于工作与环境的两难困境，工会的作用，技术创新与社会的工会主义以及公正的过渡方法。尽管欧洲不同部门的劳工和工会方法主要限于生态现代化的变体，但正在出现一种更为积极主动的变革战略，为未来的社会生态主义另辟vision径。问题突出了工会战略中的矛盾，