by Sydney Ghazarian | Mar 1, 2023 | Articles
A new “Commentary on Solidarity and Survival” on “The Green New Deal in the States” by LNS co-founder and senior strategic advisor Jeremy Brecher features the wide-ranging climate legislation and executive action taken by California in 2022. These measures require:...
by Sydney Ghazarian | Mar 1, 2023 | Articles
Unions representing over half-a-million New York state workers are demanding the legislature allocate ten billion dollars to capitalize a Climate and Community Protection Fund. The fund would include: The Climate Jobs and Infrastructure Account aimed at building out...
by Sydney Ghazarian | Mar 1, 2023 | Articles
There is a lively debate on how workers can fight for better conditions and a better world today. Proposals range from tweaks like labor law reform or bigger union organizing budgets to efforts to replacing collective bargaining with individual employers with...
by Sydney Ghazarian | Jan 31, 2023 | Articles
The Labor Network for Sustainability’s seventh Transit Equity Day will be on Saturday, February 4, 2023 at Noon EST. It will be carried on the Transit Equity Network YouTube page. We would love for you to join us. Our message for Transit Equity Day hasn’t changed. We...
by Sydney Ghazarian | Jan 31, 2023 | Articles
The Young Worker Listening Project interviewed 70 young workers in all parts of the country about the ways climate change impacts how they do and think about work, and how their work informs their understanding of the climate crisis and potential solutions. They...
by Sydney Ghazarian | Jan 31, 2023 | Articles
On January 13, 7,000 nurses at two New York City hospitals returned to work after winning their main priority — improving working conditions by adding nurses to short-staffed hospital floors where they said crowded conditions had put patients at risk and led to...