Green Work, Brown World: Labour and the Dilemma of Climate Change - International Panel - January 25, 2013 

An initiative of Work in a Warming World Research Programme.

 

When: Friday, January 25, 2013, 5:30-7:30pm

Where: Alumni Hall, Victoria College at University of Toronto                                                                                                       91 Charles St. West. Toronto, On, M5S 1K7

Speakers

Karen Hawley, Environmental researcher and educator (Ottawa)

Donald Lafleur, 4th Vice-President, Canadian Union of Postalworkers (Ottawa)

Isabelle Ménard, conseillère syndicale--environnement Confédération des syndicats nationaux (Montréal)

Andrea Peart, National Representative, Health, Safety and Environment, Canadian Labour Congress (Ottawa)

Joe Uehlein, Director, Labor Network for Sustainability (Washington, D.C.) 

 

Across the planet, the world is browning, not greening. Greenhouse gas emissions continue to grow and grow, and strategies for slowing global warming remain ineffective.

The world of work is a major producer of GHGs.  But can work also be a leading site for reducing greenhouse gasses? Can workers and their unions lead the struggle to slow global warming? The question is central to decent work in the 21^st century.

Work in a Warming World (W3) is a community-university research initiative of the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. W3’s Public Panels have been held in Fredericton, Vancouver, and Toronto, in 2010, 2011 and 2012.

This year, W3’s International Panel brings together labour environmentalists and academics from Canada and the US to discuss the hard issues that unions face, and to share the strategies that work. The hard issues have, to date, kept unions from playing the major role they can and must play in the struggle to slow global warming.  Labour’s strategic creativity, however, is less well-known.

Join us for an early evening Panel of leading labour environmentalists and activist intellectuals to discuss the hard challenges and creative strategies for labour leadership on global warming.

The Panel is free, but registration is essential. Seating is limited.

 

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