by ctruecolors | Mar 30, 2019 | Articles
On Friday, June 28 through Sunday, June 30, 2019, the Labor Network for Sustainability will hold its Third National Labor Convergence on Climate in Chicago. This Convergence will be a place where labor people can strategize about how to enhance labor’s role in...
by ctruecolors | Mar 30, 2019 | Articles, Jobs and Climate, Labor and Climage Action
Nato Green, Campaign Coordinator for San Francisco SEIU Local 1021, writes in In These Times: In recent years, some unions have embraced “bargaining for the common good,” which use the union campaign to win broad, righteous public benefits. The best current example...
by ctruecolors | Mar 30, 2019 | Articles, Labor and Climage Action
In a March 8 letter to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Edward Markey, the Energy Committee of the AFL-CIO stated, “America’s labor unions agree that climate change must be addressed.” It added, “It is critical that the voices of American...
by ctruecolors | Mar 30, 2019 | Articles
In my recent research with Allen Hyde from Georgia Tech, we find that countries with highly unionized workforces have on average done a better job of addressing climate change than the U.S. and other countries with smaller labor movements. After controlling for a...
by ctruecolors | Mar 30, 2019 | Articles, Green New Deal
WHEREAS: The recent fires and heavy storm season in Southern California provided another sobering reminder to our communities on how climate change is fundamentally altering our planet and economy; and WHEREAS: The Los Angeles region in particular, and the State of...
by ctruecolors | Mar 30, 2019 | Articles, Green New Deal
Why Labor Should Support the Green New Deal by Nancy Romer, Professor Emerita, Brooklyn College, PSC-CUNY Environmental Justice Working Group The bad news is that we must completely transition from fossil fuels to 100% renewable energy by 2050 and we must achieve most...
