What the CBO Isn’t Telling Congress: Climate Change Threatens Million of Jobs

What the CBO Isn’t Telling Congress: Climate Change Threatens Million of Jobs

→  November 5, 2009 Comments Off

While fewer and fewer people are willing to publicly deny the validity of global warming science, those who oppose action to protect the climate have taken up a new strategy:  Denying that climate change will have a major impact on the U.S. economy. This denial is rejected by most economists who have studied climate change. 

Labor’s Stake in Climate Change

Labor’s Stake in Climate Change

→  October 19, 2009 Comments Off

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 [...]

Unions Need to Sever All Ties with Anti-Climate Bill Groups

Unions Need to Sever All Ties with Anti-Climate Bill Groups

→  May 1, 2009 Comments Off

[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 [...]

Labor’s changing approach to climate change

Labor’s changing approach to climate change

→  April 30, 2009 Comments Off

Some unions dissented early from AFL-CIO climate policy.  In 1990 the Steelworkers, America’s largest and most diversified manufacturing union with a strong history of environmentalism created an executive board committee on environmental issues and issued a policy statement saying that global warming “may be the single greatest problem we face. Some have compared its possible [...]