Gathering ahead of today's G8 summit in Canada, labor leaders sent a message to leaders of the world's leading economies: It's about sustainablity, stupid!
The health of the world's economy depends on the health of the world's workers, and the time is long overdue for the world's policymakers to listen to them.
This is the message trade unionists and environmentalists from around the globe wanted to send to world leaders when the former two groups met in Toronto this past weekend to demand environmental, social, and economic sustainability in advance of the G8/G20 summit. The World Conference on Sustainability was organized by two Geneva-based global trade union federations, ICEM, and IMF, and was well attended by Canadian labor activists and leaders.........
Michelle Langlois @'Alternet'
As the article goes on to firmly state, the rest of the world has been savagely exploited by Big Corporations and their Overpaid Henchmen. Workers wages have fallen over the past 20years, dramatically reducing their capacity to meet everyday costs, the Fatcats at the top have been falling over themselves for ever more obscene bonus payouts to their Chosen Few. The environmental costs are an ongoing nightmare in many communities' lives as proper enforcement of regulations falls by the wayside and into the freshly created toxic quagmires. Attacks on the social mainstays of society in health, education, fresh water, sanitation, public transport, libraries and other vital social issues remain unabated through the parasitic funding of corporations, with sweetheart government deals and insignificant accountability. Sustainable, humane, and environmentally responsible action is needed by governments at all levels, if this insidious quicksand of pollution and exploitation that is extrapolating across the globe is to be ended. For the future of all generations to be anything other than some toxic wasteland from polluted sea to polluted sea, and barren rock to barren rock, politicians must hold corporations responsible and financially accountable for any and all of their deadly mistakes, human and environmental. - beeden
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