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Canada at the WSSDSustainable Development:
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2 CHANGES TO DECISION-MAKING STRUCTURES AND PROCESSES
2.4 LABOUR
The Canadian labour movement has been active on various aspects of the sustainable
development agenda, through policy formulation and advocacy, training of workers, and efforts
to integrate health and safety and other sustainability issues into contracts. The Canadian
Labour Congress, for example, has involved itself in issues ranging from pesticide use to
species protection to the creation of green jobs. It has worked to assist its member unions to
incorporate employee health and safety safeguards into collective agreements. As well, it has
followed a proactive social agenda addressing such domestic issues as the status of social
programs, and such international issues as racism.
At the provincial level, the Quebec-based Confederation of National Trade Unions developed a
statement of environmental principles in 1993, and since then has been working to incorporate
environmental clauses into collective agreements. It also has implemented training programs
for its members on sustainable development, and more specifically on the ISO 14001
environmental management system standard.
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