Our Power: Offshore Workers' Demands for a Just Energy Transition

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Over the past two years, we’ve come together with offshore workers to build demands for a just energy transition. These workers developed 10 demands covering training and skills, pay, job creation, investment and public ownership.

We surveyed over 1000 additional offshore workers and over 90% agreed with these demands. This plan is comprehensive in scope, transformative in scale and deliverable now.

Below you will find a series of resources setting out the demands and the paths we can take to turn them into reality.

We need a rapid transition away from oil and gas that protects workers, communities and the climate. But the government has no plan to phase out oil and gas production in the North Sea.

Oil and gas workers are ready to lead a just transition away from oil and gas, but they are caught in a trap of exploitation and fear created by oil and gas companies. Working conditions are plummeting, just as profits, prices and temperatures are soaring.

The UK and Scottish Governments must listen to workers to make this transition work for all of us. These demands lay out a comprehensive plan, which includes:

Removing barriers that make it harder for oil and gas workers to move into the renewable industry.
Ensuring safety, job security and fair pay across the energy industry.
Sharing the benefits of our energy system fairly, with public investment in energy companies and communities.

Workers have told us what they need for a just transition, now we need to work with them to make it happen.

Hear from workers

Our Power: Offshore workers’ demands for a just energy transition

The ‘Our Power’ report is a blueprint for a just transition in the UK North Sea.

With demands created by oil and gas workers for the future of their industry and communities, the report contains fully costed plans and personal case studies to back up the workers’ visions for the future.

Read the report

Our Power: Campaign manual

The ‘Our Power’ campaign manual provides an overview of how to deliver on the 10 worker demands.

It contains ideas for how you can fight for a just transition in the UK North Sea.

Our Power: Webinar

We hosted a webinar to chat about the process and outcomes of the ‘Our Power’ project.

Watch the YouTube recording now to hear about why we need a just transition, the process of speaking to offshore oil and gas workers and what we need to do with the demands now, to make sure we win.

Our Power: Methodology and lessons learned

We have developed a ‘Methodology and Lessons Learned’ briefing for anyone who is interested in climate justice and wants to learn more about how we spoke to offshore oil and gas workers, what the process looked like, and what lessons we learned.

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Alistair, Rigging Supervisor (not pictured)