by Chris Litchfield | Mar 30, 2024 | Articles
By Veronica Wilson, LNS California Organizer California Labor for Climate Jobs is hosting two CLCJ Worker Summits this spring, one in the Bay Area this past weekend and one upcoming in Los Angeles. Open to all rank-and-file members of coalition unions, the summits are...
by Chris Litchfield | Mar 30, 2024 | Articles
On March 6, LNS president Joe Uehlein testified before the House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources: Climate change is a job killer, and a budget killer. You’ve heard it said, and I don’t mind repeating it, that this is the...
by Chris Litchfield | Mar 30, 2024 | Articles
There’s a war brewing against dissent. In Georgia, lawmakers are attempting to make it illegal for communities to protest and advocate against environmental injustice by labeling protestors as “domestic terrorists.” Bills introduced in legislatures around the country...
by Chris Litchfield | Mar 30, 2024 | Articles
On March 21, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) introduced the Green New Deal for Public Housing Act. Its purpose is to take on the affordable housing crisis and the existential threat of climate change. The legislation...
by Chris Litchfield | Mar 30, 2024 | Articles
On March 7 the Providence, Rhode Island city council passed an ordinance requiring that all municipal buildings, including public schools, be carbon-neutral by 2040. It includes strong labor and equity standards that will create pathways to union jobs in communities...
