Published June 14, 2011
by iris_author
A forum for workers and their unions, environmentalists, academics, and activists and a chance for coalition-building.
Sept. 29 & 30, 2011
St. Thomas University - Forest Hill Conference Centre
Fredericton, NB
We are holding an Atlantic Forum inviting participants from the four Atlantic provinces and New England to discuss initiatives by labour and government to fight climate change while creating jobs not losing them. We want to focus on “inspiring stories” to encourage those of us here in the Maritimes to pursue this goal much further than we are presently doing, especially in the area of coalition-building between the labour and environmental movements.
It will be a two-day conference with the first day focusing on Atlantic Canada and the second day on New England and cross border initiatives.
On the first day, we will have panels on:
- national union initiatives with responses from the Federations of Labour in the four Atlantic provinces
- government representatives from the four Atlantic provinces describing their green jobs strategies
- a labour panel on initiatives and accomplishments vis-à-vis climate change and environmental challenges
On the second day, we will have panels on:
- cross border initiatives such as the Eastern Canadian Premiers’ and Governors’ Climate Change Action Plan
- government and labour initiatives in New England
- community initiatives on both sides of the border in forestry, the fisheries and agriculture
We will have keynotes from labour and environmental leaders, most notably on the first evening, followed by a reception. Over lunch, we will hear about blue-green or labour-environmental movement alliances on the first day and have a chance on the second day to try to form such alliances in regional groupings.
Professor Joan McFarland
Economics Department, St. Thomas University
Professor Andy Secord
Economics Department and Environment and Society Programme, St. Thomas University
David Coon
New Brunswick Conservation Council
Tom Mann
New Brunswick Union/NUPGE
Further Information
For further information, please contact: workinawarmingworld@stu.ca or 506-452-0634.
Registration information will be posted soon.
Sponsors
Work in a Warming World - SSHRC Community-University Research Alliance Program
St. Thomas University
NBU/NUPGE
ActionNB
Work in a Warming World addresses the challenge of climate change for Canadian employment and work. This Social Science and Humanities Research Council Community-University Research Alliance is affiliated with the Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability (IRIS) at York University. To learn more, please see the link below.
www.workinawarmingworld.yorku.ca
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