Today the American labor movement—like the rest of American society and like labor movements throughout the world—is being forced to grapple with climate change and climate change mitigation.  Organized labor’s approach to climate change is primarily employment based.  Unions like the green job gains; but they fear the potential job losses from phasing out carbon [...]

[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, worker friendly climate protection policies and garner support for them from organized [...]

By Joe Uehlein, Labor Network for Sustainability [PDF version of this report is available here] Thousands of “green jobs” have been created by President Obama’s stimulus package; millions more will be created by proposed climate legislation; tens of millions will be required to create the low-carbon economy that scientists say is necessary for the survival of the [...]

by Tim Costello and the Labor Network for Sustainability [PDF version of this report is available here] ["Labor and Climate Change" is a briefing paper that provides activists inside and outside the labor movement a way to understand the interests and concerns of different segments of organized labor in climate change issues.  It was the last major [...]