Global Warming and Global Labor

[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...

Labor’s Stake in Climate Change

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...