Title: Truck drivers on the Road - tackling the environment at our workplaces

Type: Campaign leaflet

Produced by: Ugandan Amalgamated Transport and General Workers´ Union (ATGWU) and Sustainlabour

Year: 2011

Available versions: EN

Truck drivers working for the environment? Truck drivers have launched a campaign to better understand the changes taking place around them. They often transport dangerous cargo - a risk to their health and the environment. Knowing more about what is being transported, how to manage waste, calling for occupational health & safety and environment committees, are some of the objectives of this campaign.

What’s more Ugandan truck drivers want to show that climate change can be tackled from any sector. They are learning how to mitigate it, how to drive more efficiently, reduce use of fuel.

The Amalgamated Transport and General Workers´ Union (ATGWU), with the support of Sustainlabour has been working on this campaign to raise awareness on climate change, its affects on the environment and on workers´ health, by addressing specific environmental challenges related to this sector. Truck drivers and workers at Roadside Resource Centres are learning about how to reduce pollution, transport substances and dispose of waste in a safe way, take better care of their vehicles, drive efficiently, and how to demand joint action by employers and the government on recycling and waste disposal practices in order to protect the surrounding environment – water, soil and wetlands.

Video on the launch of the campaign in Uganda is available here.

This initiative is part of the joint UNEP-Sustainlabour programme “Towards Green and Decent Jobs: Enhancing Workers and Trade Unions´ Capacity”.