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COOL COMFORTS:
BARGAINING FOR OUR
SURVIVAL
The
New Brunswick Union
and Peter Corbyn
are working together to
help unions and
management across
North America learn
how develop 'green
collective
agreements'.
Cool Comforts
provides union
activists with
step-by-step
assistance towards
improving
environmental
performance in the
workplace.
Peter is available
for keynote
presentations and
one-day workshops
regarding this
important and
practical tool for
addressing the
climate crisis.
Email
survival@earthinstitute.ca
for more information
about presentations,
workshop details or
to order copies of
Cool Comforts.
You can also obtain
supplemental
information from the
handbook, such as
U.S. greenhouse gas
emissions data and
spreadsheets for
calculating local
emissions by sending
an email to
survival@earthinstitute.ca.
The book price is
$15.95 each or
$12.95 per copy for
orders of 5 or more.
This website will
expand over time,
sharing further
information
regarding 'green
collective
agreements'.
MORAL LEADERSHIP
Now, into our third
century, unions have
played a major role
in making life
better for hundreds
of millions of
people. We have
worked towards
gender equality,
freedom of speech,
civil rights, better
health care and
better pension
plans.
This is moral
leadership. Our
parents and
grandparents did the
moral thing, they
did the right thing,
and we benefit. It
is
now our turn to do
the right thing for
our children and
their children.
THIS IS WHERE
“WE” COME IN
Unions can play a
major role in
reducing our impact
on global warming.
We can:
1. BUYING POWER
Influence the
purchasing power of
millions of people
(i.e. only buy from
socially and
environmentally
conscious
companies);
2. KNOWLEDGE
POWER
Help our members
become more
environmentally
aware, helping them
reduce their carbon
footprint;
3. CONTRACT POWER
Negotiate win-win
scenarios with the
Employer to reduce
the carbon footprint
of our workplaces,
and;
4. BALLOT POWER
Influence votes by
learning more and
demanding more of
our politicians for
sound public policy
to do what is
necessary to reduce
greenhouse gases.
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