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Exhaust – water absorbs and neutralises SOx and traps particulate. System operates with a low back pressure discharging clean dry gas. Water – scrubber discharge flows to a treatment plant in the engine room. Clean water is discharged to the ocean exceeding IMO guideline requirements. Waste – Particulates are removed from scrubber water and can be discharged into the existing oily waste tank. Monitoring – the system has secure marine approved monitoring and data storage for both exhaust and water discharge. 65
5 Passenger Services Trade Group: Towards Sustainable Transport 5.1 Introduction and Overview of the Sector The T&G section of Unite the Union’s current membership in the Passenger Services Trade Group, together with our membership in other trade groups, such as supervisory and administrative grades, and some maintenance engineering members, well exceeds 100,000. The Passenger Services Trade Group represents workers in all areas of passenger services including bus, coach, taxi, and tram and rail workers in 150 large local companies. The Passenger Services Trade Group of the T&G section of Unite is the largest trade union representing drivers, engineers, admin staff, inspectors and managers employed in the UK transport industry, with over 96 per cent of the organised workers in the sector in Unite. All forms of public transport have a vital role to play in providing an efficient, affordable and sustainable transport system. The Passenger Services Trade Group in particular containing so many different modes of transport has a leading role to play in shaping the type of sustainable transport system that will benefit the transport workers that deliver it, the public that travel on it and the wider society that are affected by its environmental fallout. There is no conflict between the role Unite plays in the workplaces delivering public transport and the role it plays in wider civil society. For the two million working members and retired members that Unite represents, together with their immediate families, Unite represents a disproportionately large segment of the travelling public. In recent years we have seen a concerted effort to improve Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GGE) by the transport sector with new technology and policy options being introduced. These actions are having an impact but there is no magic cure. It’s a continual fight and with UK population projected to be 71 million in 2031, 55 from just under 61 million in mid 2007, 56 the strain on UK transport will only increase along with GGE, unless we do all we can now to manage the impacts better, as well as protecting and strengthening local economies. According to the Labour Force Survey at least a minimum of 25 per cent of bus and coaches drivers work over 48 hours a week. 57 From the union’s experiences drivers and the support staff working for public transport operators are working closing to 50- 60 hours a week, 58 desperately trying to make a living so they can take care of their families, who they never get to see. Pressure to drive long hours to make a decent living is dangerous for the drivers and their passengers. In addition, drivers and engineering staff in particular are exposed to GGE and other particles, which can potentially cause a number of ill-health, even sometimes fatal, conditions in the short and medium term. At a wider level CO2 is the main cause of global warming. The World Health Organization estimates that global warming will contribute to more than 300,000 deaths and 10m illnesses each year by 2030. 59 Transport workers are a group that is disproportionately at risk. 55 www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=1352 56 www.statistics.gov.uk/CCI/nugget.asp?ID=6&Pos=6&ColRank=1&Rank=128 57 Labour Force Survey Jan-Mar 2008 58 www.wrp.org.uk/news/3535 59 http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:BSae12pS_IcJ:www.cdproject.net/admin/attachedfiles/Res ponses/42421/963/CDP5_ABSA_AQ.doc+greenhouse+gas+emissions+illnesses&hl=en&ct=clnk& cd=10&gl=uk 66
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