Seattle Labor Unions Join Call Saying “Shell No”

by BrendanS | Jun 12, 2015 | Articles, Labor-Environmental Cooperation, post

For Immediate Release: June 11, 2015 Contact:  Tom Geiger, 206-604-3421 In a strong show of support for a better future, local labor unions have signed a letter to oppose the decision by the Port of Seattle Commission to permit the Shell Oil rig to have safe harbor in...

Reversing Climate Change: What Will It Take?

by BrendanS | Jun 9, 2015 | Articles, Politics of Climate Change

[By Jeremy Brecher; Cross-Posted with New Labor Forum] On the weekend of September 21, 2014, people in 162 countries joined 2,646 events to demand global reductions in the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that are generating climate catastrophe. An estimated forty...

How Climate Protection Has Become Today’s Labor Solidarity

by BrendanS | May 10, 2015 | Articles, Labor and Climage Action, Labor-Environmental Cooperation, LNS News, post

[By Jeremy Brecher; Original Published in the Nation Magazine] Under banners proclaiming “Healthy Planet & Good Jobs,” thousands of trade unionists from 75 local and national unions, highly visible in their red, blue, green, and white union uniforms, joined the...

The Paris Climate Summit and the Power of the People

by BrendanS | Apr 3, 2015 | Articles, LNS News, post

[By Jeremy Brecher; cross-posted with Waging NonViolence] Since international climate negotiations began a quarter of a century ago, annual greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions have increased by 60%. As we approach yet another climate summit this November in Paris, the...

A Climate Protection Guide to Organized Labor

by BrendanS | Mar 7, 2015 | Articles, Just Transition, Labor-Environmental Cooperation, LNS News, post

[By Joe Uehlein] Thousands of trade unionists and seventy-five local and national unions participated in the Peoples Climate March in New York in September — a quantum leap from any previous labor participation in climate action. Climate protection has become a...