Expanding trade union participation in sustainable development

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

1. Governments, business and industry should promote the active participation of workers and their trade unions in decisions on the design, implementation and evaluation of national and international policies and programmes on environment and development, including employment policy, industrial strategy, labour adjustment programmes and technology transfer.

1. Strengthening role of workers and trade unions
2. Improving tripartite cooperation to ensure equitable sustainable development
3. Expanding
4. Developing a trade and sustainable development agenda
5. Achieving fundamental change through workplace action

1. Training workers on environmental safety, health and welfare
2. Providing workers with information needed to participate effectively in environmental decision-making
3. Involving workers in the design and implementation of environmental training programmes
4. Identifying workforce training requirements for sustainable development
5. Fostering trade union participation in sustainable development programmes
6. Establishing joint trade union/employer policies for the work environment
7. Developing trade union policies on sustainable development
8. Cooperating between industry and trade unions to improve capacity for sustainable development operations
9. Contributing by trade unions to international programmes for sustainable development
10. Applying trade measures to enforce environmental policies

1. Promoting proactive approaches to sustainable development
2. Ensuring freedom of association for workers

1. Ratifying and implementing ILO conventions
2. Promoting observance of international labour standards

1. Conducting staff audit

1. Unsustainable
2. Union
3. Undeveloped
4. Underparticipation
5. Underdevelopment
6. Participation
7. Overdevelopment
8. Nonparticipatory
9. Development

1. European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions