Windsor, April 15, 2010 – The Windsor and District Labour Council, The Canadian Auto Workers Windsor Regional Environment Council and the Essex Region Conservation Foundation have partnered to organize an Enviro Jobs Fair as part of the Enviro Jobs Expo.
This unique and innovative event will take place at Caesar’s Windsor in the pre-function area adjacent to the Augustus Tower Lobby on Friday, April 16th from 11AM to 5PM.
Local companies will be accepting resumes from prospective employees and the public can learn about training for career opportunities in the green economy.
Participants will include:
1. CAW Windsor Regional Environment Council (Representing 16 area CAW Locals)
2. Labourer’s International Union North America Local 625
3. St. Clair College Engineering-Energy Systems Design Program
4. Now House
5. Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 82
6. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 773
7. Advance Solar
8. Father & Son Geothermal
9. OYA Solar
10. Green Home Green Planet
11. Schletter Inc.
12. Green Sun Rising
13. Investors Group
14. Sunlife
Windsor and District Labour Council affiliates LIUNA Local 625 and CUPE Local 82 will be present to promote Green Building Initiatives and the importance of Public Sector Recycling Programs, respectively. The IBEW Local 773 will be present to promote Sustainable Energy Jobs.
In April of 2007 the CAW Windsor Regional Environment Council (CAWWREC) launched a Green Jobs Campaign aimed at reversing the devastating loss of manufacturing jobs in the Windsor area by attracting “Green Collar Jobs” in the manufacture of renewable energy technologies, electric vehicle manufacturing, green building technologies and other green products.
Our campaign has spurred a unique collaborative effort involving labour, business, government, and academic institutions sharing the common goal of positioning Windsor, Essex and Chatham-Kent as a centre for Green Collar Jobs in Ontario.
“The CAW Windsor Regional Environment Council is excited to be a partner in this unique coalition of labour, business and academic institutions sharing a common goal of creating new green collar jobs in our region,†say Mark Bartlett, President of the CAW Windsor Regional Environment Council.
Mark Bartlett
President
CAW Windsor Regional Environment Council
C- 519-982-8115- O-519-974-5341
BY SHARON HILL, THE WINDSOR STAR
NOVEMBER 2, 2009 7:31 AM
Bill Clinton is coming to Windsor in April.
WINDSOR, Ont. — Former U.S. president Bill Clinton will be in to Windsor in April as the keynote opening speaker for the Enviro-Expo 2010.
“It’s huge,” said Chris Uszynski, development officer of the Essex Region Conservation Foundation, of the honour of getting Clinton.
Uszynski called Clinton the ultimate speaker who will “bring a lot of attention regionally to this show, to this city and really to our cause.”
The Enviro-Expo 2010 is a fundraiser for the foundation, which seeks to promote healthy living, conservation and environmental improvements.
The expo is April 15 to 18 and Clinton will open the green lifestyle show April 15 at 7 p.m. at Caesars Windsor. He will be speaking in the 5,000-seat Colosseum at the casino and is expected to answer questions after his presentation.
Tickets for Clinton’s speech will range from $68 to $175 a seat. Tickets to a private reception where patrons will get a chance to meet Clinton and get their picture taken with him, will go for $1,500 each.
Tickets go on sale Nov. 23 at www.ourgreenlegacy.org.
The expo is expected to offer about 300 exhibits and attract 25,000 people.
It will cost $5 to get into the trade show.
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The Canadian Auto Workers Windsor Regional Environment Council (CAW WREC) represents over 45,000 members of 15 locals between Windsor and Sarnia, Ontario.
CAW WREC has launched a “Green Jobs” Campaign. The aim of the campaign is to help reverse the devastating loss of manufacturing and related jobs in the Windsor area, and across Canada, by promoting investment in Research and Development and the creation of “Green Jobs” in our area.
The CAW WREC Green Jobs Campaign will engage the entire community, including citizens, government, business and academia, to work together to support the creation of Green Jobs in every sector of the economy and to establish the Windsor area as a “Green Jobs” centre in Ontario.
The production of “green vehicles” offers immediate opportunities for jobs. In Windsor, Ford could be building efficient engines and General Motors could produce efficient transmissions and components. Chrysler could build hybrid, clean diesel, bio-fuel (ethanol and soy) and, eventually, electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
The campaign will also focus on non-auto Green Jobs in sustainable energy production and green products.One example of a green product is the recent production of carbon-fibre utility poles by Global Composite Manufacturing of Tilbury, Ontario. This resulted in the hiring of 127 workers.
Another recent example of the transformation to Green Production is the conversion of a former Hyundai auto plant in Quebec to the production of wind turbines by a company called AAER.
In Denmark, shipyards were converted to the production of Wind turbines which created thousands of jobs.The Windsor area has the production capacity and skills base to do the same.
This campaign is also aimed at the broader long term goal of Economic Conversion. This means moving from our present unsustainable economic model to one that embraces environmental sustainability and social justice through a “Just Transition for Workers During Environmental Change” as articulated by the CLC. http://canadianlabour.ca/index.php/Just_Transition
The CAWWREC Green Jobs Campaign will complement the goals of the CAW Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) policy and the CAW Green Auto Policy.
The campaign will build on the CAW WREC collaboration with the Green Corridor of the University of Windsor on alternative energy and environmentally and economically sustainable business models. http://www.greencorridor.ca/
The CAW WREC Green Jobs Campaign can inspire other communities across our country to foster the creation of Green Jobs and a Just Transition to a Green Economy in Canada for Canadian workers.
Mark Bartlett
519-982-8115 or mdmbartlett@aol.com
