Green Bargaining

While many operating procedures and practices are set by policy or administrative procedure, change can also be advanced through green bargaining. 

GUIDES TO BARGAINING GREEN

• The New Bargaining Agenda
  Workers' Education and the Environment, ILO, 1989
• Go Green at Work: A Handbook for Union Green Representatives
  United Kingdom, Trade Union Congress
• Climate Change, Its Consequences on Employment and Trade Union Action: A Training Manual for Workers and Trade Unions
  SustainLabor/UNEP

CONTRACT LANGUAGE EXAMPLES

Multiple Topics

• Green bargaining for CUPE locals
  Canadian Union of Public Employees, 2008

Green Committees

• Ecology Committee, AFSCME Local 2428, East Bay Regional Parks Employees
• Model employer-union joint environment and climate change agreement
  United Kingdom, Trades Union Congress, 2008

Commuting Options

• Public Transporation, Bicycling and Walking Subsidy, City of Los Angeles, AFSCME Local 3090

Telecommuting

• AFSCME Local 3336 and Oregon Deparment of Enviornmental Quality

Compressed and Alternative Work Schedules

• Flex Pack (Resource Kit), Labor Project for Working Families
• AFSCME Local 183 Johnson County, Wisconsin

Professional Difference of Opinion

• AFSCME Local 3336 and Oregon Department of Environmental Quality