by Jeremy Brecher | Mar 24, 2020 | Strike!
By Jeremy Brecher, LNS Research and Policy Director This is the second of a series of commentaries proposing an Emergency Green New Deal. The first, “As Workers Fight Coronavirus, They Are Laying the Basis for an Emergency Green New Deal,” describes the need for...
by Jeremy Brecher | Mar 16, 2020 | Strike!
By Jeremy Brecher, LNS Research and Policy Director This is the first of a series of commentaries on the Green New Deal. It argues that in the face of government and employer failure, workers and communities must take the lead to protect ourselves and each other from...
by Jeremy Brecher | Mar 11, 2020 | Strike!
By Jeremy Brecher, LNS Research and Policy Director This, the fifth in a series of posts on the Future of Climate Strikes, describes how student climate strikers appealed for adult support and organized the largest climate action in world history. For the entire...
by Jeremy Brecher | Mar 10, 2020 | Strike!
By Jeremy Brecher, LNS Research and Policy Director This is the fourth in a series of commentaries on the Future of Climate Strikes. It describes how the determined action of one young woman – and the determination of millions of other youth to act on climate —...
by Jeremy Brecher | Feb 29, 2020 | Strike!
By Jeremy Brecher, LNS Research and Policy Director It isn’t easy for unions to strike to protect the climate. U.S. labor law doesn’t make it easy to strike over anything except wages, hours, and working conditions – even over things like climate change that...
