Climate Change Champions

The Hamilton and District Labour Council is the voice of working people in Hamilton. By pursuing jobs, peace and security, we seek to build a community that values human dignity and basic fairness. We are an umbrella group that brings together local unions so that we can better represent our members, defend free collective bargaining, assist the unorganized and generally improve the quality of life in our city.

We actively promote the concerns of our members about social, economic, environmental and workplace issues to governments, community decision-makers and the general public. As well, we are a central advocate for health and safety reform, worker training and labour-specific education.

HDLC Inc. is a not-for-profit corporation that owns and operates the Labour Education and Support Centre, home of the Mohawk Labour Studies program.

Actions Taken by the Hamilton District Labour Council

1.    Changed the lighting in hallways and offices to more energy efficient.
2.    Reduced number of lights, because they’re brighter so in LC office were 4 lights, now down to one.
3.    Other office also reduced number of lights, because they’re brighter.
4.    Hallways cut lighting by half – only turn on half of them because new ones brighter and don’t need so many.
5.    In the process of switching to greener cleaning products (doing research)
6.    Participating fully in green cart program, able to have them picked up: managed to get city to pick up in areas we control (eg paper coffee cups) reducing garbage
7.    Bought extra blue bins installed them & promoted them, strategically placed (green bin and blue box next to front door as they enter)
8.    Later in the summer,  have student to talk to the tenants about greening initiative to find out how to bring them on board
9.    Create some awareness information to give to our tenants & same info for students who use the classroom
10.    Climate Change Champions to meet with student regarding resources (starts July 20th)
11.    Investigated horizontal wind turbine but found it was too pricey

Estimated Annual Greenhouse Gas savings:  8 Tonnes CO2e

Hamilton District Labour Council
1130 Barton Street East
Hamilton ON L8H 7P9
(905) 547-2944