by Ming | Jun 14, 2016 | Articles, Jobs and Climate, Labor and Climage Action, pdf
A Discussion Paper on Protecting Workers and Communities in the Great Energy Transition [1] By Arjun Makhijani, Ph.DA Joint Project of: 6935 Laurel Avenue, Suite 201 Takoma Park, Maryland 20912 301-270-5500 [email protected] www.ieer.org 11 Pine Avenue Takoma Park,...
by Ming | May 24, 2016 | Articles, LNS News
The Labor Network for Sustainability is very pleased to announce that Michael Leon Guerrero will be joining the LNS team as Executive Director. Michael has been the National Coordinator of the Climate Justice Alliance for the past two years. Last month Michael...
by Ming | May 23, 2016 | Articles, Jobs and Climate, Just Transition, Labor and Climage Action
[By Jeremy Brecher] In a small church in the Albany, NY’s low-income, predominantly African-American South End, forty people were gathered for a community meeting. They were organizing a protest against trains carrying potentially explosive oil – dubbed by the...
by Ming | May 23, 2016 | Articles, Labor and Climage Action
[By Joe Uehlein and Jeremy Brecher] Step by step the American labor movement is increasingly recognizing and responding to the threat of climate change. While the AFL-CIO never supported the Kyoto or Copenhagen climate agreements on the grounds that they were bad for...
by Ming | May 23, 2016 | Articles, Jobs and Climate, Labor-Environmental Cooperation
[By Jeremy Brecher and Todd Vachon] Union workers attacking environmentalists—it has become a trope of our time. But what do union members actually think about the environment? In a study soon to be published in Labor Studies Journal, we report our findings on workers...