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Partnerships Promote Corporate Accountability
Sierra Club has united with labor unions, faith groups and communities of color to mobilize the public against corporate pollution and destructive development. Diverse coalitions use shareholder actions, public hearings, and rallies to hold corporations accountable on issues like global trade and environmental justice.
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Numerous community groups have come together across the country to confront Wal-Mart's irresponsible development of wetlands and contribution to sprawl. Sierra Club is working alongside labor and faith groups, as well as local community groups through "Higher Expectations Week: A National Week of Action," Nov. 13-19, 2005.
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In Oregon, Sierra Club joined United Farm Workers, the Council of Churches, National Farm Worker Ministry, and local family farmers for a rally supporting clean air and workers' rights, and opposing noxious ammonia gas from Threemile Canyon Farms, a giant dairy factory farm. |
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Sierra Club and the labor union UNITE HERE work together to hold the Cintas corporation accountable for toxic pollution from the laundry industry that threatens workers and the environment. In a recent victory, Connecticut chapter leaders joined with UNITE HERE at a 2005 hearing to support a precedent-setting agreement that ended the use of endocrine disrupting chemicals in an industrial laundry facility on the Branford River. |
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Sierra Club activists from Midwestern states join Native Americans from Arizona at Peabody's shareholder meeting in St. Louis to protest irresponsible water use and dirty coal plants. |
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The Club sponsored a U.S tour by Honduran environmental leader Father Andres Tamayo to educate the Spanish speaking public about the dangers of the Central American Free Trade Agreement. He presided over mass and spoke about the environment to thousands of Hispanic Catholics in California.
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