Labor Unions’ Role for Environmental Protection – by Exerting Efforts for Training, Education and Awareness of Workers about Environment.

May 23, 2012

Khan et al

Greener Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 2 (2), pp. 089-096, May 2012

Research Paper

Labor Unions’ Role for Environmental Protection – by Exerting Efforts for Training, Education and Awareness of Workers about Environment.

*¹Muhammad Tariq Khan, ²Naseer Ahmed Khan,

³Tashfeen Muhammad ⁴Hamaaduddin Khan7, ⁵Waleed Ahmed Khan

¹Head Department of Management Sciences, University of Haripur, PAKISTAN

²Postmaster General, Pakistan Post Rawalpindi, PAKISTAN

³BS Student, Environmental Sciences, Bahria University, Islamabad, PAKISTAN

⁴BS Student, Geo Physics, Bahria University, Islamabad, PAKISTAN

Author’s Email: ²nakhan59@yahoo.com, ³ Tashfeenkhan606@gmail.com, ⁴Waleedkhan69@gmail.com

*Corresponding Author’s Email: tariq_phd@yahoo.com

Abstract:

Labor unions are the organization which by definition are only struggling to secure benefits for their members, such as financial gains like rise of wages, bonuses, various allowances like insurance benefits, overtime payment and non financial benefits such as job security, comfortable work place recreational facilities and decreasing fear of employer through collective bargaining. But Unions also have social and developmental roles. Several studies have shown that unions also have rendered services beyond collective bargaining. This study is focused to explore the role of labor unions in protection of environment through workers training and education and awareness about environment problems, which is much away from their definitional mandate.

Keywords: Labour union, Labour union role, environmental protection, development, workers training, Environmental awareness.

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Journal Name : citation_journal : Greener Journal of Social Sciences

Publication Status/Date : usp_status_date : May 2012