A new ‘Green jobs, safe jobs’ blog, from the trade union health and safety magazine Hazards and global union confederation ITUC, addresses the real life health and safety issues that must be an integral part of discussions on the development of a green economy. www.hazards.org/greenjobs/blog  The blog aims to challenge the assumption that green jobs are automatically a good thing. If they kill workers they are not good; if they exploit workers they are not good. And there is no iron law guaranteeing that employers who are kind to the environment are kind to their workers.

The ‘Green jobs, safe jobs’ blog will present evidence on the potential pitfalls and how to avoid them, so that we get jobs that are decent, safe and green. And it will widen the discussion to incorporate issues like worker participation and unionisation as essential components of a healthy green economy. The blog is designed as a companion to the Hazards webpages on the same topic. www.hazards.org/greenjobs.

Recent entries on the ‘Green jobs, safe jobs’ blog include:

Global: Unions call for a ‘decent’ green economy 

  USA: Economic justice is a green issue 

Global: Red alert on the perils of green jobs 

Global: Long work hours threaten our futureGlobal: Will workers pay for clean energy?