Automotive workers – take action against environmental destruction! Fight for a future worth living in unity with people and nature!
November 8, 2025: ICOG call for International Day of Environmental Struggle on November 15, 2025: Hurricanes and typhoons have recently killed and injured hundreds of people in Southeast Asia and the Caribbean, devastating entire regions. The infrastructure has been completely destroyed. In the Philippines, over a million people have had to leave their homes and seek safety. This scenario clearly shows what humanity can expect in the near future in the face of these climate disasters as global warming increases. As automotive workers, we cannot turn a blind eye to this. That is why the issue of environmental destruction, necessary immediate measures, and a livable future in unity between humans and nature will be an important topic at the 3rd International Automotive Workers' Conference from November 20-24, 2025, in Pune, India. The International Coordinating Group (ICOG) has included the issue of the struggle to protect the natural environment in its proposed resolution to the conference delegates.
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The Trump administration, ultra-right-wing and fascist parties continue to deny that the cause is the climate catastrophe with its rapid warming of the earth and sea water. Energy and automotive companies in particular are exacerbating the environmental catastrophe that has already begun and preventing a rapid transition to renewable energies and the effective recycling of valuable raw materials.
The race for electric vehicles and artificial intelligence (AI) also has a negative impact on the environment, especially as long as it is not based on renewable energies. The intensive mining of lithium, cobalt, nickel, and manganese is leading to the destruction of habitats and ecosystems, groundwater contamination, and a shortage of these natural resources.
We, the workers in the automotive industry, are not responsible for its murderous competition and open battle of destruction. We are not attached to combustion engines and private transportation, nor to mountains of scrapped cars.
We reject the ongoing shift to a war economy: “Workers don't shoot workers.” It is not environmental protection that is to blame for job losses, but the pursuit of maximum profit and world market dominance by multinational corporations.
If capitalism can only function on the basis of destroying the foundations of human life, we declare war on it as a whole! In many countries around the world, automotive workers are engaged in tough struggles and strikes. It is our task as an international automotive workers' movement to fight at the forefront for immediate protective measures for our class.
For an immediate transition to renewable energies!
Fight for 100% emission-free transport, for sustainable and environmentally friendly mobility in the future!
At the COP 30 World Climate Conference currently taking place in Belém, Brazil, tens of thousands of people from all over the world are meeting with the declared goal of stopping global warming and the transition to a global climate catastrophe. The US and the oil-producing countries did not even attend, even though they are the main emitters of greenhouse gases. Government and bank representatives, lobbyists from oil, energy, and mining companies continue to actively participate in world climate conferences to prevent effective measures from being taken that could jeopardize their billions in profits. So it's a huge spectacle that ultimately does nothing to stop the further plundering and destruction of valuable raw materials and massive environmental destruction.
But there are also thousands of active and militant environmentalists in Belém, who are discussing effective measures against climate catastrophe and environmental destruction at an alternative summit and taking their protest loudly to the streets. A strong delegation of workers and trade unionists from Brazil itself is taking part. Construction workers in Para have gone on a protest strike. Representatives of the International Automotive Workers' Coordination are standing shoulder to shoulder with the militant international environmental movement and promoting the common struggle.
Take part in the activities for International Day of Environmental Struggle on November 15, 2025! Make your protest visible together with trade unions, in the workplace, and on the streets.
Automotive workers—take action against environmental destruction!
Fight for a future worth living in unity with people and nature!
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