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Translated by Jane Jenson from Le Devoir, Sept. 6, 1989. Attempts of public sector unions to develop new strategies to avoid conflicts between the unions and the public and between the leadership and the rank and file; examples from Canada, France, and Australia.

International Ladies Garment Workers Union strike against the Montreal garment industry; based on conference paper. Issue of home labor in the industry, position of women in the ILGWU, and role of feminist strategy.

La montée des corporations multinationales pose de nouveaux et de sérieux problèmes au syndicalisme international. Cet article traite de la stratégie syndicale élaborée en particulier par Charles Levinson et par les Secrétariats professionnels internationaux à Genève. Leurs recommandations impliquent une réorganisation complète des centrales syndicales nationales et internationales afin de mettre sur pied des fédérations industrielles internationales vraiment capables de faire face aux corporations multinationales. Après un résumé de ces recommendations stratégiques, l'article passe à l'analyse et à la critique de cette stratégie et surtout de ses implications sur les rapports de force au sein du mouvement syndical mondial. On discute ensuite de l'impact de cette stratégie sur les objectifs, les structures et les tactiques du syndicalisme du Tiers-Monde.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables, Figures, and Appendices -- I Trends and Challenges -- Introduction -- 1. International Constraints on Green Strategies: Ontario's WTO Defeat and Public Sector Remedies -- 2. Unions and Climate Change in Europe: The Contrasting Experience of Germany and the United Kingdom -- 3. Gendered Emissions: Counting Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Gender and Why It Matters -- 4. Canadian Labour's Climate Dilemma -- 5. Renewable Energy Development as Industrial Strategy: The Case of Ontario's Green Energy and Green Economy Act -- II Making Green Work -- 6. (Re)building Sustainable Infrastructure: The Implications for Engineers -- 7. Construction and Climate Change: Overcoming Roadblocks to Achieving Green Workforce Competencies -- 8. Labour and the Greening of Hospitality: Raising Standards or Union Greenwashing? -- 9. Cities, Climate Change, and the Green Economy -- 10. Renewable Energy, Sustainable Jobs: The Case of the Kingston, Ontario, Region -- About the Contributors -- Index

"Global warming is perhaps the greatest challenge facing the twenty-first century. Environmental polices on the one hand, and economic and labour market polices on the other, often exist in separate silos creating a dilemma that Work in a Warming World confronts. The world of work - goods, services, and resources - produces most of the greenhouse gases created by human activity. In engaging essays, contributors demonstrate how the world of work and the labour movement need to become involved in the struggle to slow global warming, and the ways in which environmental and economic policies need to be linked dynamically in order to effect positive change. Addressing the dichotomy of competing public policies in a Canadian context, Work in a Warming World presents ways of creating an effective response to global warming and key building blocks toward a national climate strategy."--Publisher's website