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 Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL)

Ontario Federation of Labour  
The Ontario Federation of Labour is the province's "house of labour", or central labour body. Just as workers unite in a union to protect their rights, so also do unions unite in central labour bodies to further their aims and objectives.  

From its inception in 1957, the OFL has grown to represent 650,000 Ontario workers in more than 1,500 affiliated local unions. 
  

Just Transition

See the factsheet on "Just Transition" -- a labour-lead initiative to ease the transition to an environmentally-sustainable economy.

  Ontario Federation of Labour
The OFL has an Energy and Environment Advisory Committee.  For information, contact Duncan Mac Donald, Program Coordinator. 

  Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) 
The CAW is the largest private sector union in Canada with a total membership of 238, 000.  Members are organized into about 1,600 bargaining units and close to 400 local unions.  

The CAW's  Environment Policy covers transportation and emission control standards, the right to refuse to pollute, education, working with allies, and the 4 Rs ("Reduce, Reuse, Recover, Recycle").
  

Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) 
The Canadian Labour Congress is the national voice of the labour movement. The majority of national and international unions in Canada belong to the Congress, and the CLC includes 12 provincial and territorial federations, and 125 district labour councils. It represents 2.3 million unionized workers. 

The CLC has an environmental program and it hs played a lead role in Canada in promoting "Just Transitions": the labour movement's response to the call for sustainable development.  Just Transition recognizes the need for our economy and society to be based on sound environmental principles, and it challenges us to ensure that the transition to a green economy is done in such a way that it will protect the quality of life and jobs for workers: 

The labour movement's vision of a healthy Canadian environment is founded on sustainability - a sustainable economy, sustainable employment, sustainable production and the public services that support it: a future for all Canadian in a sustainable society. 

from the CLC Policy on
Just Transition for Workers During
Environmental Change  
 

  Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario 
The Ontario Division of CUPE is a voluntary association of CUPE locals in Ontario representing over 180,000 members. The membership of CUPE Ontario is broken down into five principal sectors: Municipal; Health Care; School Boards; University; and Social
Services.
  

  Ontario Environment Network (OEN) Labour Caucus 
The Ontario Environment Network (OEN) is a non-profit, non-governmental network serving Ontario's environmental non-profit, non-governmental community. Ontario has over 500 environmental groups that range from national to neighbourhood-based and focus on a wide range of issues. 

The primary function of the Labour Caucus is to promote greater understanding of labour issues within the environmental community and to network with the environmental community whenever possible. 
 

Ontario Public Emloyees Union (OPSEU) 
OPSEU represents more than 100,000 people in all kinds of jobs: teachers and support staff in community colleges and universities, health care professionals in hospitals, ambulance paramedics, counsellors in centres for the developmentally handicapped, clerks at land titles offices, conservation officers in provincial parks, caregivers in community agencies, staff in psychiatric hospitals, and they are court reporters in provincial courts and guards in the provincial jails.

For information on environmental issues, use their on-site search engine.
 

Workers Health and Safety Centre 
The Workers Health & Safety Centre was established by the Ontario Federation of Labour in 1979. The Workers Centre is still the only worker-driven health and safety delivery organization in the province of Ontario