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To: UK Government
Workers shouldn’t pay for Trump’s war
I’m Lewis and I work in a bricks factory in the West Midlands.
Trump started an illegal war on Iran, sending energy prices here in the UK through the roof. It’s jobs like mine that will pay the price.
I’ve already lived through one energy crisis, and I’m not willing to pay for another one.
When Putin invaded Ukraine, gas prices spiked, creating a massive energy crisis and a cost of living crisis.
We paid the price for that crisis – with soaring energy bills and thousands of job losses.
Meanwhile energy companies pocketed billions in megaprofits.
This time around, we say no.
This war needs to fully end.
We need immediate support to protect industrial firms and jobs, investment to shield our industries from international crisis, and an end to profiteering.
Why is this important?
Trump’s illegal war on Iran is having devastating impacts on people in Iran and around the world.
Working people in the UK are also at the mercy of this conflict and risk paying for it with higher bills and job losses.
We should not have to pay for this ‘Trumpflation’.
Every time gas prices spike because of war, we foot the bill for it, because gas prices are set internationally.
Trumpflation threatens lots of good, unionised manufacturing jobs across the country. Jobs in industries that use a lot of energy.
From chemicals in Teesside, to ceramics in Stoke, to glass in Merseyside.
What needs to happen now?
First off, this war needs to fully end – international efforts to de-escalate, maintain peace and uphold international law and the United Nations Charter should be redoubled.
Here in the UK, we need short term support to protect jobs now AND we need to fix the foundations of our energy system to prevent the next gas price crisis threatening industry. Even when the war ends, we will still experience the costs here in the UK for months,
The UK government needs to take urgent action to:
- Deliver immediate support to protect industrial sites from soaring energy costs so we don’t lose jobs now
- Invest in industrial upgrades to reduce our sites’ reliance on gas in the longer term
- Modernise and make our energy system more resilient to shield the UK from the next international crisis
- Tackle profiteering to make sure companies don't make megaprofits from this crisis, while ordinary workers pay the price
This action must reduce the UK’s industrial vulnerability to crises like this one, boost long-term resilience of our homegrown industries, and help protect goods job for the long-run.