As workers have a huge amount of knowledge that can help organisations looking to reduce their environmental impact, trade unions can play a key role in identifying and delivering best environmental practice at workplace level.
Unions can ensure that efforts to reduce an organisation’s environmental impact are developed collaboratively and in full consultation with workers. Involving workers can make sure that changes are fair, effective and have the full support of people in the workplace.
The course will also look at a ‘just transition’ to a greener economy, where workers have a central voice in planning the transition. It’s one where no workers or communities are left behind. And where new jobs that are created are just as good as any that are lost in terms of pay, skills, pensions and trade union recognition.
The course will cover a range of topics including:
- What is Just Transition?
- Understanding the climate and environmental emergency and identifying the impact on your workplace.
- Working to identify sustainability issues that need to be raised with employers.
- How to carry out workplace environmental audits.
- How to review and develop workplace environmental policies and agreements
- Awareness raising and promotion of green workplace practices.
Further details
This course is aimed at all union officers, branch officials, reps, health and safety reps, union learning reps and equality reps who would like to find out more about the trade union approach to sustainability and who wish to take action on the climate and nature emergency in the workplace.
Workers across all sectors will be affected by changes resulting from the climate crisis, and will be part of the efforts to decarbonise and move to a more sustainable, zero-waste, circular economy.
