Green UNISON Day - 5 June

UNISON has designated World Environment Day (WED) on June 5 2009, as ‘Green UNISON Day’. Actions have been arranged for UNISON offices around the UK, including in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Inverness.

It will be a ‘green travel’ day and staff will have the opportunity to check their carbon footprint. Branches in Scotland are being encouraged to write to employers to seek to negotiate a green workplace agreement.

Ideas for action on the day are in a WED Briefing on the UNISON Scotland website.

WED was established by the United Nations in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. It is one of the main ways that the UN uses to raise awareness of the environment.

Meanwhile, there is still time, as the Climate Change (Scotland) Bill passes through the Scottish Parliament, to email MSPs, asking them to make it stronger. Just click on www.unison-scotland.org.uk/greenworkplace/respondmsp.html

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