Incorporating environmental parameters to the production processes is now an undeniable need worldwide. And our country is a pioneer in pursuing this policy, as evidenced by the recent fi rmed agreement between the Ministry of Environment of the Nation and the international workers’ organization UNI-Americas, a cooperation agreement to expand and strengthen the environment model Argentine labor and American countries.
The agreement “is part of the process of awareness of recent years in relation to the role of the labor movement in the defense and promotion of active policies on environmental protection,” said Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Security, Carlos Tomada , who attended the event. Signed by the holder of the environmental portfolio, Bibiloni Homer , and the UNI-Americas Regional Secretary Raul Requena, this new initiative ca ratified the work that our country has made since 2005 and which was endorsed in 2009, through a document fi rmed with the General Labour Confederation (CGT). Tomada said that the Ministry of Labor, seeks to implement the clauses in collective agreements, where employer and employee engage in the search for a more sustainable environment. In this regard, “we have conferences with union leaders and employers, which were drafted clauses attempts to incorporate this notion of preservation of the environment,” he said. In adherence to this proposal which involves both areas of government, and reinforces the “federal way” in the same, the Environment Secretary was optimistic for the creation of this instrument, which is part of the “paradigm of the century”: “employment, production, environment and social inclusion.” The agreement raises the axes for the strengthening and consolidation of the integration model of workers and their unions to environmental policies in the United States of America, as it operates in Argentina, through appropriate trade union policies in recipient countries of the initiative. Read More
