AHT's Blue Green Training
On June 16, 2006, the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow's Labor Advisory Committee hosted a Blue-Green Alliance Building Training at the Walker Center in Newton, Mass.
The workshop included a Friday evening program and a full day Saturday interactive session.
The evening program and discussion featured Steve Gauthier from IUE/CWA 201 and the North Shore Labor Council and Joel Tickner, professor and expert in chemicals policy from UMass Lowell School of Health and the Environment.
Workshop Objectives:
- Foster a deeper understanding of how environmental issues affect labor and workers on the job.
- Learn about flawed government decision-making and regulatory systems that results in toxic trespass in our children, our communities and our workplaces.
- Understand the ways that corporations divide labor from potential allies in the community and environmental movement.
- Build relationships between labor, environmental and health affected groups to support the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow’s efforts to choose and promote safe alternatives to toxic chemicals.
- Find opportunities to work together.
The workshop was informative and interactive. There were approximately twenty-five participants representing labor, environmental, faith and health groups from around the state. Participants engaged in group discussions about the history of the environmental movement, how labor and environmental groups have worked together and the past and opportunities to continue working together in the future.
