by Jeremy Brecher | Sep 30, 2024 | Articles
Photo Credit: WikiImages The summer of 2024 had the hottest global temperature on record, putting the earth on course for the hottest year in human history. Samantha Burgess of the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said the world had also experienced the hottest...
by Jeremy Brecher | Sep 30, 2024 | Articles
Photo Courtesy of Sara Löwgren The first full year of the Inflation Reduction Act created nearly 150,000 clean energy jobs according to a new report by nonpartisan business group E2. Nearly 3.5 million people now work in clean energy jobs in the US, more than the...
by Jeremy Brecher | Sep 30, 2024 | Articles
The United Steelworkers Union (USW) recently announced an agreement with Convalt Energy mutually pledging to prioritize workers’ rights as together they work to bring solar energy manufacturing back to the United States. According to USW International President David...
by Jeremy Brecher | Sep 30, 2024 | Articles
By Bakari Height The mayor’s office of Washington DC is cutting a vital service to the riders, visitors, and especially workers of the region- the red yellow colored downtown buses known as the DC Circulator. Originally created to serve a void in the larger metro...
by Jeremy Brecher | Sep 30, 2024 | Articles
Members of Teamsters Local 657, which represents workers at 22 UPS facilities in Texas, rallied August 28 to demand the company move faster on the union contract it signed with the Teamsters last year. Workers at UPS represented by the Teamsters won protections for...
by Jeremy Brecher | Sep 30, 2024 | Articles
“Champions” features current and historic figures who can inspire the struggle for a worker- and climate- safe world. Photo credit Wikipedia Commons Lois Gibbs was born in a blue-collar area of Grand Island, NY; her father worked in steel mills and her mother...
