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The Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, Canada (CBTU) has joined the Adapting Canadian Work and Workplaces (ACW) research project to explore the impact of climate change on racialized communities within Canada.
The “Overcoming Fear: Creating a Trinational Workers Toolkit Conference” in Pennsylvania brought together trade unionists and Migrant Activists from Mexico, USA, and Canada. The trinational Conference was organized by United Electrical Workers, United Steelworkers, and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.
Les membres du Comité des droits de la personne du Syndicat des travailleurs et travailleuses unis de l’alimentation et du commerce (TUAC) d’un bout à l’autre du pays se sont réunis pour participer à l’atelier Green is not White Environmental Racism. Human Rights Committee members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) came together from across Canada to engage in the Green Is Not White Environmental Racism workshop.
How can we stop environmental racism within our workplaces, Unions and communities?
Over 150 Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) delegates came together to expose the disproportionate impact of climate change upon racialized and Indigenous communities.
How to get more people involved in environmental justice work? Change the face of it.
Facilitator Notes, by The Coalition of Black Trade Unionists & Adapting Canadian Work & Workplaces
CBTU video with a profile of Shannon Holness describing her work with the Toronto Community Benefits Network
Video: Presentation on the Environmental Racism Research Project to the XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology.
Video: Shadiya Aidid, Spoken Word Artist and Activist, presents her poem “Natural Disasters” at the CBTU General Membership Meeting.
As the pressure of global warming upends jobs, education, health and our communities, the impact of environmental racism exposes the destruction suppression of Racialized and Indigenous dreams and aspirations for economy equality.