by BrendanS | Aug 22, 2014 | Articles, Jobs and Climate, Local Organizing
Eight Connecticut labor organizations, including the state AFL-CIO, have endorsed the People’s Climate March in New York City on Sunday, September 21: 32BJ SEIU CT American Federation of Teachers – CT CT AFL-CIO CT Education Association CT State Council...
by BrendanS | Aug 22, 2014 | Articles
Sean Sweeney of Trade Unions for Energy Democracy and Jeremy Brecher of the Labor Network for Sustainability discuss the significant labor ferment around the climate crisis. Climate change changes everything: everything about how we organize society, how we conduct...
by BrendanS | Aug 4, 2014 | Articles, Politics of Climate Change, post
[By Jeremy Brecher, Cross-posted with Waging Nonviolence] Nearly 100,000 people have pledged to risk arrest if the Obama administration appears poised to give approval to the Keystone XL pipeline. While it would be difficult to prove, it seems likely that the specter...
by BrendanS | Jul 7, 2014 | Articles, Labor and Climage Action
[By Jeremy Brecher]Delegates to Connecticut State Council of Machinists (CSCM) conference at the end of June voted unanimously to endorse and participate in the historic People’s Climate March set for Sunday, September 21, 2014 in Manhattan. This was just the most...
by BrendanS | Jun 12, 2014 | Just Transition, Reports
Americans need a good chemical industry. We need a chemical industry that provides safe, well-paid, secure jobs for its workers. That protects the health and safety of the workers and communities it affects. That provides the rest of us safe materials that minimize...
