Unions around the world are striving to address this crisis, while protecting the welfare of working men and women. From space we have seen how fragile our existence really is. Our earth is like a living organism with a failing respiratory system, poisoned bodily fluids and cancerous skin. For greed and profits our world has been sickened and hurt like the bodies of so many workers. Much of our environmental work takes place at the rank and file membership level.
Every local is mandated to establish an environment committee.
Rank and file members have also formed CAW Regional Environment Councils, which organize within the workplace and in the community on such varied issues as promotion of the legalization of the growth of industrial hemp to the preservation of wilderness areas and elimination of pollution in the community.