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Green Unions at Work Sarah Pearce UNISON – The Public Service Union (former TUC ‘GreenWorkplaces’ Project Leader)
Political Backdrop
Cuts, cuts and more cuts...
Greening the workplace
• Aims
– Making the workplace a focus of climate action and reducing its environmental impact.
– Providing training to union environmental reps. – Supporting unions to work on a key business goal:
cutting carbon. – Extending the consultation agenda to include a
new bargaining issue: climate change.
• Green fairs and events • Surveys and quizzes • Bespoke training • Negotiations
Key activities
Collective bargaining
Union green action 2009 - 2012
(Labour Research Dept., 2009, 2012)
34% 34%
24%
17%15%
6%8%
3% 3%n/a
Greennewsletter
Green day Green survey Green audit DVD/ filmshowing
20122009
Collective bargaining on green issues
(Labour Research Dept., 2009, 2012)
46%
28%
15%16%
6%
11%
joint management-unionshealth and safety
committees
joint management-unionsenvironment committees
joint working party onenvironment/climate change
20122009
PresenterPresentation Notesover a quarter of the workplaces surveyed (312 organisations; 26%) there are management/union discussions on the environment/climate change.
Supported by the Welsh 1st Minister and UNITE the union
Lessons learned and best practice
• Employers and governments must see unions as part of the solution.
• Give unions green rights and powers to negotiate to push for change.
“I’d like to see this happening in every
organisation” (trainee ‘green’ rep, National Library of Scotland)
Any questions?
sarah.pearce@unison.co.uk Check out: tuc.org.uk/greenworkplaces
Slide Number 1Political BackdropCuts, cuts and more cuts...Greening the workplaceKey activitiesCollective bargainingSlide Number 7Union green action 2009 - 2012Collective bargaining on green issuesSlide Number 10Slide Number 11Slide Number 12Lessons learned and best practiceSlide Number 14