UA-171643620-1 Sam Perry Working Hours Interview - Working Hours

Episode 33

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24th Jan 2026

Work Changes Things

Recorded on 06/08/2025

Sam Perry is Project Lead for Warm Homes at the Trades Union Congress, where he works to improve job quality in the clean heat and home retrofit sector, promote just and inclusive net zero transitions, and enhance the voices of working people in national and regional decision-making.

He established the North East, Yorkshire, and Humber Just Transition Network; leads on the Climate Action Pledge at Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission; is a national champion and enabler of trade union climate action (especially through green reps); and works closely with DESNZ on workforce planning in the retrofit sector.

Sam's background is in union organising and local authority social housing delivery, and his special interest is the climate, social justice, and economic opportunities of large-scale, publicly delivered home energy upgrades.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-perry-york/

https://www.facebook.com/SamPerryYork

https://bsky.app/profile/samofyork.bsky.social

And check out https://www.tuc.org.uk/about-tuc/our-history

Union Links:

Centenary of General Strike. https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/support-the-celebration-of-the100th-anniversary-of-the-general-strike-1926

Join a UK TUC Affiliated Union https://www.tuc.org.uk/join-a-union

TU news and campaigns https://www.labourstart.org/welcome/

Labour Start podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/1TOPX2A9YGDZnQSLz8oBZE?si=7ac312d15f7042b4

Simon Sapper and Martin Smith’s Organising for Change – the podcast for union builders https://open.spotify.com/show/09KsNslXwvHPuO8Dgt2AVC?si=3e904e09bdaf4125

Working Class History Podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/3dqQUrBAmXgoU1Q6hcUnBX?si=1d84a837e0064177

Analysis News Playlist with Jane McAlevey interviews https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5wue8oAUyGr5RZszwAWS4sEpqAUNQ4qJ

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Working Hours
The Story of Work in Leeds in the 2020s
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Western Studios, Leeds presents Working Hours: a podcast series surveying the people of Leeds on their thoughts and feelings on the topic of work. I want to talk to my city about work. Why do we do it? Do we like it? What could we do differently? What will we? How does work change and how does it change us?
Leeds, the largest city in the largest county on the UK mainland, is a former imperial textile centre and is now a major UK financial centre. This series will document the city’s experiences through Lockdown, Brexit, creeping technological unemployment, new and continuing resource wars, the ongoing dismantling of the welfare state and our accelerating ecological emergency.
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