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Title: Green Bargaining for CUPE Locals
Description: CUPE has a long history of climate change related educational materials, including: Healthy, Clean & GREEN: A Workers' Action Guide to a Greener Workplace (2015), which encourages workplace behaviours such as waste reduction, environmental committees and environmental audits; How to form a workplace environment Committee ; and an online, interactive Eco-audit tool to workers score their workplace behaviours related to energy conservation, recycling, water use, cleaning products, transportation, and workplace meetings. A very early document was the CUPE Green Bargaining Guide , published in 2008 and which provided examples of collective agreement language on many issues, including conservation, commuting, and establishing an environment committee
Identifier: ONLINE_Green_Bargaining_Guide-0.pdf
Identifier (PID): yul:1156040

Title: Towards a Progressive Labor Vision for Climate Justice and Energy Transition in the Time of Trump
Description: This memorandum proposes an analysis and provisional framework around which to construct an ambitious and effective agenda for progressive labor to respond to the converging environmental crises, and to pursue a rapid, inclusive approach to energy transition and social justice. Such an agenda could serve to bring a much-needed independent union voice to policy and programmatic debates on climate change and energy within Our Revolution spaces and processes. Labor's voice in these debates frequently echoes the large energy companies on one side, or the large mainstream environmental NGOs on the other.
Identifier: Towards-a-Progressive-Vision-TUED.pdf
Identifier (PID): yul:1156039

Title: Healthy Clean and Green: A Worker's Action Guide to a Greener Workplace
Description: CUPE members have a workplace environmental guide at their fingertips. The booklet – entitled Healthy, Clean & GREEN: A Workers' Action Guide to a Greener Workplace – shows workers what steps they can take to make their workplaces environmentally sustainable. Climate change, waste reduction and environmental rights are some of the issues covered in the publication. Action is at the centre of Healthy, Clean and GREEN. The booklet spells out what CUPE members can do at work and in their communities to tackle some of the pressing environmental problems we face.
Identifier: green_booklet_0.pdf
Identifier (PID): yul:1156027

Title: How to form a Workplace Environment Committee
Description: Workplace environment committees deal with environmental issues in the workplace. Like other workplace committees that have specialized interests, an environment committee looks at ways to improve the environmental record of the workplace. These committees can go by different names, such as the Green Committee or the Green Team. Sometimes, environment committees are made up of worker and employer representatives. Sometimes, unionized workers set up their own worker-only environment committee. Unlike some other committees, such as health and safety committees, there is no law in any Canadian jurisdiction that states workplaces must have an environment committee. Therefore, these committees are either set up voluntarily by workers and the employer or – in some cases – they are set up as a result of the collective bargaining process. CUPE recommends that its members set up either a workers-only environment committee or a joint worker/employer environment committee. Sometimes, joint health and safety committees extend their mandate to take on environmental issues. However, a separate environment committee that focuses only on green issues is the better way to go to ensure that workplace environmental issues are front and centre for the committee.
Identifier: enviro-committees-fact-sheet1.pdf
Identifier (PID): yul:1156026

Title: You can help your workplace go green: How to form a workplace environment committee
Description: Workplace environment committees deal with environmental issues in the workplace. Like other workplace committees that have specialized interests, an environment committee looks at ways to improve the environmental record of the workplace. These committees can go by different names, such as the Green Committee or the Green Team. Sometimes, environment committees are made up of worker and employer representatives. Sometimes, unionized workers set up their own worker-only environment committee. Unlike some other committees, such as health and safety committees, there is no law in any Canadian jurisdiction that states workplaces must have an environment committee. Therefore, these committees are either set up voluntarily by workers and the employer or – in some cases – they are set up as a result of the collective bargaining process. CUPE recommends that its members set up either a workers-only environment committee or a joint worker/employer environment committee. Sometimes, joint health and safety committees extend their mandate to take on environmental issues. However, a separate environment committee that focuses only on green issues is the better way to go to ensure that workplace environmental issues are front and centre for the committee.
Identifier: WorkplaceEnvironmentCommitteeFactSheet.pdf
Identifier (PID): yul:1156017