Towards a green planet : Trade unions can help too.

January 13, 2006

Date:14/01/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/01/14/stories/2006011405311300.htm Opinion - News Analysis Towards a greener and more just planet Klaus Toepfer It is time for trade unions and environmentalists to forge closer ties. MORE THAN 25 Asian trade union trainers

have been educated, under the auspices of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), about health, safety, and environmental issues in the workplace. Trainers will use the knowledge they acquired to further strengthen local capacity to address occupational health, safety, and environmental issues. A major survey is under way to unravel the health and environmental impacts of nickel mining and smelting on the Pacific island of New Caledonia. Kindly read the entire article at; http://www.hindu.com/2006/01/14/stories/2006011405311300.htm The article goes on to show how environment groups are now tying up with unions. The workers too have realised that industrial pollutants are them too. Let us hope this new alignment will give a boost to the fight against poluutants. "Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the power of the spirit." - Aurobindo.

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