by BrendanS | Mar 31, 2010 | Jobs and Climate, Just Transition, Labor and Climage Action, post
[This is the first in a series of posts designed to provide a strategy for addressing organized labor’s stake in climate change. Its goal is to provide activists inside and outside the labor movement with the information they need to help shape effective,...
by BrendanS | Jan 15, 2010 | Labor and Climage Action, post
Over the past couple of years, the American labor movement has become an enthusiastic supporter of expanding “green jobs” that fight global warming. But policies to reduce carbon emissions to levels scientists say are safe have been a harder pill to...
by BrendanS | Nov 30, 2009 | Labor and Climage Action, post
[This is the first in a series of LNS posts as representatives of trade unions around the world head off to Copenhagen] While world leaders play the “blame game” for their failure to negotiate a binding climate agreement in Copenhagen, trade unions from...
by BrendanS | Nov 12, 2009 | Jobs and Climate, Just Transition, Labor and Climage Action, post
The Labor Network for Sustainability (LNS) released a White Paper today arguing that current House and Senate climate bills do not do enough to protect workers, and laying out an alternative strategy for worker protection. The White Paper, Climate Legislation Must...
by BrendanS | Oct 19, 2009 | issues, Labor and Climage Action, post
Climate change will directly affect most American workplaces not in some theoretical future but in the working lives of those now in the industry. And their unions will be affected right along with them. New Orleans was perhaps the most highly unionized city in the...
by BrendanS | May 1, 2009 | Labor and Climage Action, Politics of Climate Change, post
[Cross-posted with HuffingtonPost.com] Under escalating pressure from activists, Nike, the utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric Company, and others have publicly resigned from the US Chamber of Commerce over its opposition to climate protection policies....