Local ____________ commits to:
- Recognizing that we are living in a global climate crisis and that a climate emergency must be declared.
- Engaging with our members to work with allies to push for a zero-carbon society/economy as quickly as possible.
- Working with our employer(s) to cut greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change throughout our workplace(s), including bargaining climate change contract language, setting up workplace emissions reductions/climate action committees, creating workplace environmental representative positions, and urging employers to climate-proof our work.
- Taking effective steps to cut emissions from our Local operations to create a zero-carbon Local union.
- Putting pressure on all levels of government to decarbonize our society/economy and move toward a zero-carbon future that includes good Just Transition strategies and programs for affected workers and their communities.
Because:
- The climate crisis is the planet’s most-urgent socio-economic and political issue that, if unchecked or if dealt with incrementally, will threaten human life and well-being, especially on the basis of equality.
- All work across Canada and the world is jeopardized by the climate crisis.
- We cannot go back to old ways of working as we move on from the pandemic.
- CUPE, at all levels of the union, has been striving for decades to improve the working lives of its members and must extend this work to fight the climate crisis.
- Trade unionists, governments, employers, citizens, and all sectors of society have a role to play in solving the climate crisis.