The solidarity center (SC) proposes a $7 million, 48-month project, entitled promoting a just transition for all workers in brazil and chile

The Department of Labor's Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) awarded the Solidarity Center (SC), a non-profit organization, a $7 million, 48-month Cooperative Agreement under the International Labor Programs (CFDA 17.401). The project, titled "Promoting a Just Transition for All Workers in Brazil and Chile," aims to increase worker voice in the formulation, implementation, and monitoring of climate policies and plans. The target populations are workers, their organizations, and communities in Brazil and Chile whose employment landscape will shift due to climate-related policies and practices, with a focus on historically marginalized groups. Key activities include listening sessions with impacted workers, outreach to government, support for just transition advocacy and social dialogue, trade union capacity building, and ongoing mentorship. This project contributes to ILAB's broader objectives of enforcing trade commitments, strengthening labor standards, and combating child and forced labor globally.

The project objective is to increase worker voice in the formulation, implementation, and monitoring of climate policies and plans.populations served will include workers, their organizations, and their communities, in brazil and chile whose employment landscape will shift due to climate-related policies and practices. The most impacted workers and communities are those who are underrepresented in institutions that make policy decisions on their behalf, including historically marginalized populations (women, indigenous communities, young people, afro-descendant people, people with disabilities, and migrants). Institutions served are the democratic worker organizations in brazil, chile, south africa, and colombia, that represent those populations at the local, state, national, and international levels, some of which are named below, and allied csos, including social movements. Demand-side pressure from workers, their unions, and their allies will serve government and private sector institutions. Target sectors in brazil include the extended vehicle manufacturing value chain (mining, metal manufacturing, and transport sector) in the states of SAO paulo, bahia, pernambuco, santa catarina, RIO DE janeiro, amazonas and minas gerais. In chile the metal manufacturing sector (mineral mining and processing, and metal manufacturing) in northern chile, and the metropolitana and biobo regions.activities to be facilitated by SC include listening sessions with impacted workers and communities outreach to government at all levels support for just transition advocacy, social dialogue, and collective bargaining trade union capacity building on organizing and leadership, just transition policy and advocacy, coalition building, and just transition communication ongoing mentorship development of union joint strategic plan for worker and community engagement south-south cooperation providing technical workshops and peer to peer trainings