LABOR & CLIMATE NEWS
LNS Calls the Inflation Reduction Act an Opportunity to Mobilize for Climate, Labor, and Justice
In response to the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, the Labor Network for Sustainability has just released the following statement…
Teen Vogue: Young Workers Fight Climate Change
“Young Workers Are Bridging the Climate and Labor Movements” – that’s the title of an article by journalist Leanna First-Arai that just appeared in Teen Vogue and Truthout. It features the Labor Network for Sustainability’s Young Workers Listening Project.
UPS Drivers Refuse to Be “Sent Out to Die in the Heat”
Heat protection will be one of the key issues in the upcoming Teamsters negotiations at UPS for the biggest union contract in North America, which covers the majority of UPS’s 350,000 workers. The current contract expires next year.
Labor’s “Green New Deal from Below”
A pair of new commentaries by Making a Living on a Living Planet’s editor Jeremy Brecher provides dozens of examples of how unions in the most diverse industries and occupations are creating their own Green New Deal-type programs in localities around the country.
Union-Enviro Pressure Turns Postal Fleet Green
Under pressure from unions and environmental groups, the U.S. Postal Service just announced that 40% of its new delivery vehicles will be electric.
AFT Says: Divest!
The July convention of the 1.7 million member American Federation of Teachers urged that its members’ retirement assets be divested “from all corporations or other entities that extract, transport, trade or otherwise contribute to the production of coal, oil and gas” and that they those funds be reinvested in “projects that benefit displaced workers and frontline communities.”








