by Sydney Ghazarian | Oct 30, 2023 | Articles
On October 3 the Executive Council of the American Federation of Teachers passed a resolution “Declaring a Climate Emergency and Developing Climate Action and Healthy Building Plans.” It resolved that: The AFT urgently demands that President Biden take bold action by...
by Sydney Ghazarian | Oct 30, 2023 | Articles
On October 24 a new labor union coalition released the California Worker Climate Bill of Rights calling on legislators to take urgent action to support workers through the economic upheaval and hazardous conditions wrought by a rapidly changing climate. The new...
by Sydney Ghazarian | Oct 30, 2023 | Articles
On October 4 Americans for Democratic Action presented LNS co-founder and president with the Winn Newman Lifetime Achievement Award. In his acceptance speech, Joe said in part: Art is a critical complement to activism, because no matter how brilliant our attempts to...
by Sydney Ghazarian | Oct 30, 2023 | Articles
LNS Board Chair and former president of the Washington State AFL-CIO Jeff Johnson made the following remarks to the September 17 Climate Rally in Seattle: Saving the planet ironically just isn’t part of the corporate plan. Also, not part of the corporate plan...
by Sydney Ghazarian | Oct 30, 2023 | Articles
The Rutgers AAUP-AFT, which represents more than 5,000 full-time faculty, graduate workers, postdoctoral associates, and EOF counselors at the state university’s three main campuses, has been holding a series of “Freedom Schools” in the tradition of “Ella Baker, the...
by Sydney Ghazarian | Oct 30, 2023 | Articles
A new coalition of labor unions called Climate Jobs Washington was formed this summer “to address both climate change and racial and economic inequality by creating high-quality union jobs to sustain Washington’s families and communities.” The coalition released...
