British Labor Union Leader Calls for New Nuclear Power Projects

Gary Smith, general-secretary of the GMB, one of the biggest labor union confederations in the United Kingdom with some 500,000 members, has urged the government to build new nuclear power plants to bring the country out of the protracted energy crisis and secure industrial jobs. Smith did so in the context of his variant of the Green Deal, which calls nuclear the best option to protect the climate. But his GMB, and Unite, another major union, plus several smaller ones, defeated the pro-climate unions and pushed through their views at the Sept. 12-14 Trade Union Congress, and they have the majority of industrial workers backing them—particularly those in the nuclear industry, naturally.