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Unions as environmental actors

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  • Darryn Snell

    (Centre for Governance, Work and Technologies (College of Business), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University, Darryn.Snell@rmit.edu.au)

  • Peter Fairbrother

    (Centre for Governance, Work and Technologies (College of Business), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University, Peter.Fairbrother@rmit.edu.au)

Abstract

Building on a long history of concerns with the working environment, unions are now addressing issues arising from the debates and policies on the human causes of climate change. This article examines how unions are responding to such issues. Many unions are extending their capacities in relation to environmental concerns and in the process are refocusing their purpose. This is, however, not straightforward: unions are caught in a tension between pressures to ensure job creation and pressures towards environmental responsibility. While unions address climate change as independent organizations, more comprehensive outcomes may be possible via emergent forms of unionism that bring unions and their local communities together in solidaristic ways.

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  • Darryn Snell & Peter Fairbrother, 2010. "Unions as environmental actors," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 16(3), pages 411-424, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:treure:v:16:y:2010:i:3:p:411-424
    DOI: 10.1177/1024258910373874
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    1. Halliki Kreinin, 2021. "The divergent narratives and strategies of unions in times of social-ecological crises: fracking and the UK energy sector," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 27(4), pages 453-468, November.
    2. Lidia Greco, 2023. "A just transition: Insights from the labour unions of a steel locality (Taranto, Italy)," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 44(4), pages 1127-1148, November.

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