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Title: Occupational wages and employment in Green goods and services - November 2011
Description: Presents data from a sample during the survey period of November 2011. Amongst the finding: five of the 6 largest detailed occupations in all-green establishments were in the transportation and material moving occupational group. These 5 occupations were school or special client bus drivers (174,450); transit and intercity bus drivers (111,760); refuse and recyclable materials collectors (56,930); hand laborers and freight, stock, and material movers (54,890); and heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers (39,060).
Identifier (PID): yul:1120591

Title: We make it Move: a Vision for Sustainable Transportation
Description: At the first ever CAW Transportation Conference, held from September 23 – 25, 2011 the Canadian Auto Workers discussed a draft version of a new policy for transportation in Canada. The starting point of the policy is that “transportation must change”, because of three forces: climate change, peak oil, and globalization. The union states its goal: “to create a made-in Canada transportation system that is the most efficient, accessible, green and safe in the world”, based on four overarching principles: the transportation system must be environmentally sustainable, recognized as a public good, made-in-Canada, and a place for good jobs. For each of the transportation sectors (road, rail, air, marine) the paper outlines issues and proposes very specific solutions and policy goals. The document and an accompanying action plan will be discussed and voted on by the National Executive Board, and CAW and Quebec Councils.
Identifier (PID): yul:788614