Teen Vogue: Young Workers Fight Climate Change

Teen Vogue: Young Workers Fight Climate Change

“Young Workers Are Bridging the Climate and Labor Movements” – that’s the title of an article by journalist Leanna First-Arai that just appeared in Teen Vogue and Truthout. It features the Labor Network for Sustainability’s Young Workers Listening Project. The article...
Labor’s “Green New Deal from Below”

Labor’s “Green New Deal from Below”

A pair of new commentaries by Making a Living on a Living Planet’s editor Jeremy Brecher provides dozens of examples of how unions in the most diverse industries and occupations are creating their own Green New Deal-type programs in localities around the country. The...
Union-Enviro Pressure Turns Postal Fleet Green

Union-Enviro Pressure Turns Postal Fleet Green

Under pressure from unions and environmental groups, the U.S. Postal Service just announced that 40% of its new delivery vehicles will be electric. In April the United Auto Workers and the National Resources Defense Council sued the U.S. Postal Service over its plan...
AFT Says: Divest!

AFT Says: Divest!

The July convention of the 1.7 million member American Federation of Teachers urged that its members’ retirement assets be divested “from all corporations or other entities that extract, transport, trade or otherwise contribute to the production of coal, oil and gas”...