by Chris Litchfield | May 30, 2024 | Articles
Shontaé Cannon-Buckley is the Member Relations Manager at US Climate Action Network, of which LNS is a member, and recently was the lead organizer of the 2024 Midwest Regional Meeting, at which union members and climate and environmental justice organizers shared...
by Chris Litchfield | May 30, 2024 | Articles
by LNS California Organizer Veronica Wilson California Labor for Climate Jobs held their first ever Lobby Day in Sacramento, California in early May, calling for the California Worker Climate Bill of Rights. The coalition of 15 unions represents more than one million...
by Chris Litchfield | May 30, 2024 | Articles
By LNS Transit Planner Bakari Height At a transit rider organizing training one dreary Saturday morning in Pittsburgh, I listened to transit riders speak on how advocates can be an ally for the disabled community. Those notes ring in my mind on how this community is...
by Chris Litchfield | May 30, 2024 | Articles
The BUILD GREEN Act, recently re-introduced in Congress by Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Robert Garcia, would authorize the US Department of Transportation to distribute $500 billion over ten years to electrify existing transportation and build new...
by Chris Litchfield | May 30, 2024 | Articles
On May 15th the Railroad Workers United hosted a public webinar about their campaign for public rail ownership, which is currently ramping up. Hear how corporate greed is strangling our ability to have a worldclass railroad system for people and the planet. LNS is a...