Dear rn, Interesting document, wouldn't you agree? rkm ============================================================================ From: "Brian Hill" <•••@••.•••> To: <•••@••.•••> Subject: Fw: Houston Principles of the Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 00:02:39 -0800 http://www.asje.org/principles.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [About ASJE] [Image] [Campaigns] [Links] Houston Principles of the Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and [News] the Environment [Email ASJE] ------------------------------------------------------------- Preamble On May 19, 1999, environmental and labor leaders confronted CEO Charles Hurwitz in Houston to demand that his Maxxam Corporation, which owns Kaiser Aluminum and Pacific Lumber Company, be held accountable for its impact on working people, communities and the environment. By clear-cutting ancient redwoods in Northern California, and by locking-out striking steelworkers in five cities, the Maxxam corporation has become an icon of corporate irresponsibility. Recognizing that we have a common interest in making corporations more accountable for their behavior world-wide, environmental and labor leaders have formed the Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment and circulated the following statement, dubbed the "Houston Principles". Whereas: * The spectacular accumulation of wealth by corporations and America's most affluent during the past two decades has come with a huge price tag. * Corporations have become more powerful than the government entities designed to regulate them. * The goal of a giant, global corporation is to maximize wealth and to wield political power on its own behalf. Too often, corporate leaders regard working people, communities, and the natural world as resources to be used and thrown away. * Recognizing the tremendous stakes, labor unions and environmental advocates are beginning to recognize our common ground. Together we can challenge illegitimate corporate authority over our country's and communities' governing decisions. * While we may not agree on everything, we are determined to accelerate our efforts to make alliances as often as possible. We believe that: * A healthy future for the economy and the environment requires a dynamic alliance between labor, management, and environmental advocates. * The same forces that threaten economic and biological sustainability undermine the democratic process. * The drive for short-term profits without regard for long-term sustainability hurts working people, communities, and the earth. * Labor, environmental and community groups need to take action to organize as a counter-balance to abusive corporate power. The environmental and labor advocates who have signed these principles resolve to work together to: * Remind the public that the original purpose behind the creation of corporations was to serve the public interest - namely working people, communities, and the earth. * Seek stricter enforcement of labor laws and advocate for new laws to guarantee working people their right to form unions and their right to bargain collectively. * Make workplaces, communities and the planet safer by reducing waste and greenhouse gas emissions. * Demand that global trade agreements include enforceable labor and environmental standards. * Promote forward-thinking business models that allow for sustainability over the long term while protecting working people, communities, and the environment. This ground-breaking alliance of labor and environmentalists invites all people to join with us in a spirit of creative cooperation. Together, we can forge a partnership that protects people and the planet. Sign This Now! Signed: ENVIRONMENT: LABOR ---------------------------- ------------------------------ Bruce Hamilton Elizabethe A. Brown Conservation Director Assistant Administrative Sierra Club Officer The Newspaper Guild Paul Hawken Communications Workers of Author America David Brower Emil Ramirez Brower Fund Staff Representative United Steelworkers of John A. Knox America Executive Director Earth Island Institute Carole Reed Rapid Response Coordinator John Cavanagh USWA Local 9444 Director Institute for Policy Joseph T. Lesh, Jr. Studies President, Local 1181 Washington Federation of Michael Renner State Employees AFSCME, Senior Researcher AFL-CIO Worldwatch Institute Jeff Mansfield Richard Drury President Acting Executive Director Greater Seattle Area Local Commentates for a Better American Postal Workers Union Environment Randy Berriochoa Juliette Majot Treasurer Executive Director Idaho Federation of Teachers, International Rivers local #4582 Network Richard Warner Brent Blackwelder Staff Representative President USWA Local 300A Friends of the Earth Jack Gilchrist Carl Anthony Executive Secretary Executive Director Seattle/King County Building Urban Habitat Program and Construction Trades Council Jonathan Parfrey, MDA Executive Director George Holmes Physicians for Social President Responsibility SEIU Local 202 Suzanne Murphy Sandy Sawyer Managing Director President L-3197 Redefining Progress American Federation of Government Employees Paul Schwartz National Campaign Director Brian White Clean Water Action Chair SAOP Steward Local 120 AFL-CIO Mark Ritchie President Jason Oringer Institute for Agriculture Communications Team and Trade Policy USWA Carol L. Wright Marlene Myers Executive Director Secretary Klamath Forest Alliance Local 1066 Kelly Quirke Gene Achziger Executive Director President Rainforest Action Network TNG/CWA Local 37082 Jim Jontz Paul F Glavin Executive Director Administration Officer American Lands Alliance TNG/CWA Local 37082 John Passacantando Wayne B. Pretts Executive Director President Ozone Action Wenatchee Aluminum Trades Council Lois Gibbs Executive Director Dan Buell Center for Health and President Environmental Justice Cowlitz & Wahklakum Central Labor Council Tom Turner Director of Publications Kenneth White Earthjustice Legal Defense President Fund Idaho Association of Letter Carriers Peter Rosset Executive Director Gary Sites Food First/ Institute for President Food and Development Policy USWA Local 341 Paul Mason W C Beck Executive Director President, Local #338 Environment Protection United Steel Workers of Information Center (EPIC) America Hal Kane Doug Godinho Executive Director President Pacific Environment and USWA Local 703 Resource Center Larry L Kenck Marguerite Young Business Representative California Director Teamsters Union Local 582 Clean Water Action Rudy Hashberger Huey D. Johnson Secretary, President Linn-Benton-Lincoln Labor Resource Renewal Institute Council Oregon AFL/CIO Diane Takvorian Executive Director Douglas Baier Environmental Health Secretary Coalition Bremerton Fire Fighters, 1 AFF #437 Paul Spitler Executive Director Terry L Bonds California Wilderness District Director Coalition United Steelworkers of America District 12 Patricia M. Clary Executive Director Gil Hayes Californians for Secretary-Treasurer Alternatives to Toxics Mid Columbia Labor Council Samuel La Buddy James D Phillips Executive Director Chairman, L & E Committee Endangered Species Project USWA 917 Christine Stevens Robert N Woodson President Business Manager and Animal Welfare Institute Secretary-Treasurer Laborers' International Union Paul Hughes of North America, Local 901 Executive Director Forests Forever William Bokovoy Secretary-Treasurer Dr. Henry Clark United Food and Commercial Executive Director Workers Union, Local 381 West County Toxics Coalition Donald Goldberg Senior Attorney Gary Cohen CIEL Director Environmental Health Fund Tony Micciche President Greg Small USWA Local 8599 Executive Director Pesticide Watch James Karr Professor David Korten University of Washington President People Centered Development John Morgan Forum Financial Secretary/Treasurer UBC Local 1532 Ted Smith Director Shirley Kenck Silicon Valley Toxics State Committee Woman Coalition Kootenai County Democrat Central Committee Franses F. Korten Executive Director Jean Patterson The Positive Futures Clerk, San Jose Friends Network Meeting Friends Committee on Unity Dave Henson with Nature Executive Director Occidental Arts and Ecology Ronald Forest Center Financial Secretary Carpenters Local No. 131 Jay Letto President Laura Huth Central Cascades Alliance Urbana City Council Member Ward 5 David Cobb Secretary Normand Coen Green Party of Texas Rec. Secretary USWA Local 7263 Jill Ratner President Harold Withrow, President Rose Foundation AFSCME Local 120, Tacoma, WA Craig Thomas Director Jan Conley The Center for Sierra Lake Superior Greens Nevada Conservation Superior, WI 54880 Gina Giazzoni Shirley Haglund State College Coordinator USWA Local # 9444 Allegheny Defense Project Roseville,Mn Adam Roberts Michael Wodaszewski Research Associate USWA Local # 7263 Society for Animal Vadnais Ht, Mn 55109 Protective Legislation Jean Frogner Sanford Lewis USWA Attorney Duluth, Mn 55805 Strategic Counsel on Corporate Accountability Robert Hollenbach USWA Local # 9444 Karen Pickett Minnapolis, Mn 55411 Coordinator Bay Area Coalition for Dennis A Gille Headwaters USWA Local # 7263 Lakeland, Mn 55043 Luke Cole Director Wilbur L Wilson Center on Race, Poverty & USWA Local # 310 the Environment DesMoines, Ia 50313 David E Ortman Charles R Cassatt President USWA Local 105a Wise Use Movement Bettendorf, Ia 52722 Thomas R. Lent Robert Marsden President USWA Local 7945 Association of Flight Tacoma, Wa 98421 Attendants--Alaska Airlines Thomas Card Wenonah Hauter USWA Local # 460 g Director Kassota, Mn 56050 Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy Project Bradford Lynch Mid Columbia Labor Council Paula Palmer The Dalles, Or 97058 Executive Director Global Response Gilbert L Hayes Mid Columbia Labor Council Cal Broomhead The Dalles,Or 97058 Bureau of Energy Conservation T Jay Kelso San Francisco, CA USWA Local 13214 Green River, Wy 82935 Prof. Lee Altenberg Information and Computer Albert Battisti Sciences, USWA Local 13214 University of Hawaii at Rock Springs, Wy 82901 Manoa Daniel Haanpaa Jim Puckett USWA Local # 13214 Director Green River Wy, 82935 Asia Pacific Environmental Exchange (APEX) Arthur Sumstine USWA Local # 8907 David Wood Kansas City, Mo 64120 Senior Associate Center on Wisconsin Robert Sprague Strategy USWA Local 8907 Holden, Mo 69040-9460 Lisa Mastny Staff Researcher Terry Bush Worldwatch Institute USWA Local 105 Bettendorf, Ia 52722 William A Shutkin President Carole J Reed New Ecology Inc. USWA Local # 9444 Chisago City, Mn 55013 Chris Ford Steering Committee Member Will Herold Southern Arizona Alliance USWA Local # 2175 for Economic Justice. Farmington, Mn 55024-9425 Charles M Miller, esq. Gary Partlow Attorney USWA Local 2175 Law Office of Charles M. Lakeville, Mn 55044 Miller Keith Porter jr Celia F. Alario USWA Local # 6803 Communications Team Albert Lea, Mn 56007 USWA and Amazon Watch Michael King Thomas Ryan USWA Local # 216 Community Services Director Kansas City, Mo San Francisco Labor Council Janice Vochoska Scott Tundermann USWA Local # 9444 Sustainable Energy Choice St Paul, Mn 55117 Project Institute for Science and A. E Stattelman Interdisciplinary Studies USWA Local # 307 Topeka, Ks 66608 EMT O'Nan Director Sally Edwards Protect All Children's USWA Local # 286 Environment Lincoln, Ne Bill Welsch Earl Ransom President USWA Local # 307L Safe Alternative for our Topeka, Ks 66608 Forest Environment (SAFE) Wil Leiker Beth Burrows USWA Local # 307 President/Director Topeka, Ks 66615 The Edmonds Institute Randy L Hague Harlin Savage USWA Local # 307L Director Topeka, Ks 66608 Colorado Forest Program Don Grow Fredy Champagne USWA Local # 286 President Lincoln, Ne Veterans for Peace, Inc. Victor Hernandez Julia Butterfly Hill USWA Local # 2561 Kansas City, Ks 61106 Alan Rose Professor Emeritus Richard Warner University of Idaho Staff Rep USWA Vancouver, Wa 98683 Nancy Kubasek Author Steve Powers "Environmental Law" Staff Rep USWA Minneapolis, Mn 55414 Hugh M. Carola (612) 623-8840 Fax Coordinator Hackensack Meadowlands Jacks Calvaresi Preservation Alliance USWA Bloomington, Mn 55420 Mary Bull SF Coordinator Emil Ramirez Boycott the Gap Campaign Staff Rep USWA Independence, Mo 64555 John Grech Public Officer Tereasa Gunderson Earth Worker Inc., Canada SMDC Ashland Grandview, Wi 54839 Steve Brooks Coordinator Lynn Wedlund Virginia Forest Watch SMDC Ashland Ashland, Wi 54806 Larry Weiss Coordinator Kim Welty Labor, Globalization and SMDC Ashland Human Rights Project Ashland, Wi 54806 Resource Center of the Americas Stephen Bezruchka, MD, MPH Affiliate Assistant Professor Department of Health Services University of Washington David Muhly Chair Virginia Forest Watch Bill Devall Chairman Deep Ecology Resource Center Shirley J Shelburn Humbolt Watershed Council Rt 1 Trinidad ,Ca 95570 Ken Miller Salmon Forever Mckinleyville, Ca 95519 Marianne DE Sobrino Redwoods Chapter Sierra Club Eureka, Ca 95503 Kyle Haines Forest Protection Coordinator Klamath Forest Alliance John Sellers Director Rukus Society Karen Litfin, Associate Professor Department of Political Science University of Washington - Seattle Bob Martel Executive Director Humboldt Watershed Council Chad Hanson Executive Director John Muir Project Christine Cooper, Ph.D Faculty of Business University of New Brunswick Saint John Jacek Purat School of Information Management and Systems University of California at Berkeley Steve Thompson Natural Resource Consultant Whitefish, MI Cam Walker Friends of the Earth Australia Darryl Cherney, Executive Director Environmentally Sound Promotions Redway, CA Stephen Graves Land Use Consultant Soquel, CA Bryony Schwan, Exec. 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