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...
by Jeremy Brecher | Sep 30, 2024 | Articles
Photo Courtesy of Sara Löwgren The first full year of the Inflation Reduction Act created nearly 150,000 clean energy jobs according to a new report by nonpartisan business group E2. Nearly 3.5 million people now work in clean energy jobs in the US, more than the...
by Jeremy Brecher | Sep 30, 2024 | Articles
The United Steelworkers Union (USW) recently announced an agreement with Convalt Energy mutually pledging to prioritize workers’ rights as together they work to bring solar energy manufacturing back to the United States. According to USW International President David...
