by ctruecolors | Jun 20, 2019 | Articles, GND Labor Endorsements Top, Green New Deal
The Labor Network for Sustainability has called on all members of Congress who support the Green New Deal to co-sponsor legislation to protect the pension and health benefits of coal miners. For many years the fossil fuel industry and its supporters have characterized...
by ctruecolors | Jun 20, 2019 | Articles, GND Labor Endorsements Top, Green New Deal
The Labor Network for Sustainability will hold its third National Labor Convergence on Climate June 28-30. This year’s theme is “Strengthening Labor’s Voice to Help Shape the Green New Deal.” The major goal of the Convergence is to produce an action agenda for labor...
by ctruecolors | Jun 20, 2019 | Articles, GND Labor Endorsements Top, Green New Deal
Sara Nelson, who will open the first panel at the LNS Labor Convergence on Climate in June, is international president of the Association of Flight Attendants representing 50,000 workers across 20 airlines. In a recent article for Vox, Nelson writes that flight...
by ctruecolors | Jun 20, 2019 | Articles
On August 20, 2018 a fourteen-year-old Swedish schoolgirl sat down alone in front of the Swedish Parliament with a sign saying “Student Strike for Climate.” Soon thousands of students around the world began joining her weekly actions. By March 15, 2019 one-and-a-half...
by ctruecolors | Jun 20, 2019 | Articles, GND Labor Endorsements, GND Labor Endorsements Top, Green New Deal
With more than 1,200 delegates attending, the Massachusetts Teachers Association approved a resolution “That the MTA delegation to the 2019 NEA Representative Assembly propose a national teachers strike in support of the Green New Deal.” The submitters’ rationale...
