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...
by Sydney Ghazarian | Jan 31, 2023 | Articles
Washington, DC plans to eliminate its $2 bus fares in July. It is also considering a monthly subsidy for subway riders. Kansas City, Missouri is the first major U.S. city to approve a fare-free public transit system. Boston, San Francisco, and Denver are now...
by Sydney Ghazarian | Jan 31, 2023 | Articles
Six hundred fifty thousand young climate activists have said they will continue “protesting in the streets in huge numbers” against fossil fuels. In a cease-and-desist letter to the CEOs of fossil fuel companies, youth campaigners accuse them of a “direct violation of...
by Sydney Ghazarian | Jan 31, 2023 | Articles
Jessica Garraway has worked as an educator in Minneapolis Public Schools for roughly six years. She has been organizing and writing on matters such as wealth disparity, racism, colonialism, women’s liberation, labor, and environmental issues for over 10 years. ...
by Jeremy Brecher | Jan 5, 2023 | Articles, Strike!
By Jeremy Brecher,Senior Strategic Advisor, LNS Co-Founder Just since the start of 2021 there has been a wave of state legislation and executive action that sets and implements new standards for greenhouse gas emissions. States have greatly expanded their plans for...
by Sydney Ghazarian | Jan 5, 2023 | Articles
LNS is enlarging the scope of “climate workers,’ such as railroaders and transit workers, to lift-up the importance of investing in the transit workforce to create good jobs for operators and maintenance workers as we transition to clean energy transit systems. This...
