Calling all labor movement climate and sustainability activists: The Labor Network for Sustainability needs you — And you need it.

Are you in the labor movement?  Are you concerned about a sustainable future?  Climate change?  Economic justice?  If so, you should know about the Labor Network for Sustainability.

The LNFS was launched in October, 2009 by labor activists who are concerned about a more just and sustainable world. (more…)

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 South.  But when Katrina hit, unions representing everyone from teachers to hospitality industry workers to municipal employees were decimated along with the industries and workers they represented.  (more…)

As Congress gears up to craft much-needed legislation to protect the earth from global warming, many American workers are wondering what it will mean for their jobs. They may be wondering even more if they hear about the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s proposal for carbon regulation legislation, The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, released March 31. It is 648 pages long. But Section 424 on “Worker Transition” has only three words: “to be supplied.” (more…)

[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. It’s time for labor unions to follow suit by cutting all ties with groups opposing climate legislation like the Chamber-funded Energy Citizen’s Alliance. (more…)