by Jeremy Brecher | Sep 30, 2024 | Articles
Kevin Young teaches history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he is a vice president of the faculty-library union. His top organizing priority is making climate sustainability and justice more central to the work of the labor movement. On campus he...
by Jeremy Brecher | Sep 30, 2024 | Articles
A recent headline from the Machinists union proclaims “IAM Takes Bold Steps in Addressing Climate Crisis and Embracing Green Technologies.” It reports that the 2024 IAM Grand Lodge Convention in August passed a groundbreaking climate resolution: “Members passed...
by Jeremy Brecher | Sep 30, 2024 | Articles
Image: Courtesy of The ULiners LNS President Joe Uehlein has just published an article in the environmental publication Earth Island Journal titled “Pitfalls & Possibilities: The US labor movement needs to expand worker solidarity to human solidarity.” Here’s a...
by Jeremy Brecher | Sep 30, 2024 | Articles
Kevin Young, labor-climate activist featured in this issue’s “Spotlight” above, has recently published Abolishing Fossil Fuels: Lessons from Movements that Won. Young is historian at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and a leader in the LNS-coordinated...
by Jeremy Brecher | Sep 30, 2024 | Articles
Photo Credit: WikiImages The summer of 2024 had the hottest global temperature on record, putting the earth on course for the hottest year in human history. Samantha Burgess of the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said the world had also experienced the hottest...
