by Ming | Feb 6, 2020 | Articles, Climate Strike
By Lauren Burke Last September, an estimated 7.6 million people joined the global climate strike, making it the largest demonstration against climate change in the world’s history. In the U.S., over 39 trade union bodies engaged in the climate strike: passing...
by Ming | Feb 6, 2020 | Articles, TED
Thank you to all who attended LNS’s Virtual Convergence 3: Transit Equity: Labor and Community Voices on the Nexus of Civil Rights and Climate Action To prepare for Transit Equity Day taking place February 4, 2020, LNS featured a panel of union leaders and civil...
by Ming | Feb 6, 2020 | Articles, GND Labor Endorsements, Green New Deal, Jobs and Climate
Environmental Protection Agency workers protect the air we breathe, the water we drink, and ensure a healthy environment for everyone. In the face of devastating climate change, we need them more than ever. The Trump Administration is gutting the EPA—slashing funding,...
by Ming | Feb 6, 2020 | Articles, GND Labor Endorsements, Green New Deal, Jobs and Climate
How can unions educate their members about climate change? The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) just provided a sterling example. The entire current issue of its magazine American Educator is devoted to teachers and climate change. It is available free online....
by Ming | Feb 6, 2020 | Articles, GND Labor Endorsements Top, Green New Deal, Jobs and Climate, Politics of Climate Change
Ryan Pollock, an inside wireman with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) writes about the recent AFL-CIO Convention in Texas: Not only were many of my fellow trades siblings—plenty of whom work in the fossil fuel industry or represent fossil...
