Securing our children's world
Published by MAC on 2007-03-15
Securing our children's world
15th March 2007
The United Steelworkers is the largest mineworkers' union in North America. Last year it concluded an alliance with the Sierra Club to integrate environmental issues into trade union demands. Now it has published a policy document committing the union to further action against poverty and in meeting "critical environmental challenges". It points out that:
"Without the two movements acting in concert, neither movement can succeed."