by Sydney Ghazarian | Aug 31, 2023 | Articles
1400 workers in Erie, PA have been out on strike since June, demanding that their employer, Wabtec, start producing green locomotives. In a statement of solidarity, the Labor Network for Sustainability said: The unions were denied their basic rights to strike over...
by Sydney Ghazarian | Aug 31, 2023 | Articles
Hundreds of workers at Amazon’s main headquarters in Seattle held a walkout May 31 to protest the company’s backtracking on its commitments to climate protection. A statement by Amazon Employees for Climate Justice condemned the company’s recent admission that it had...
by Sydney Ghazarian | Aug 31, 2023 | Articles
UPS Workers Win Heat Protections Faced with a threatened strike – including “practice picket lines” — by its 340,000 union employees, UPS has agreed to a contract that provides major gains in wages and working conditions for its Teamsters’ members. The contract...
by Sydney Ghazarian | Aug 31, 2023 | Articles
On August 14 Montana district court Judge Kathy Seeley declared Montana’s fossil fuel-promoting laws unconstitutional and enjoined their implementation. In a 103-page order, Judge Seeley said that by prohibiting government agencies from considering climate impacts...
by Sydney Ghazarian | Aug 31, 2023 | Articles
On July 6, newly elected Mayor Brandon Johnson’s transition team provided the city plan for a “Chicago Green New Deal.” Mayor Johnson, a longtime Chicago teacher and union organizer, ran a social justice campaign stressing the disproportionate impacts polluting...
