by Jeremy Brecher | Sep 30, 2022 | Articles
The US Department of Transportation recently proposed a Greenhouse Gas Rule requiring state departments of transportation to measure greenhouse gas emissions and establish targets to lower those emissions. The Labor Network for Sustainability, as part of its transit...
by Jeremy Brecher | Aug 31, 2022 | Articles
In response to the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, the Labor Network for Sustainability has just released the following statement: The fossil fuel industry, the Republican Party, conservative fossil-fuel Democrats, and right-wing ideologues combined to...
by Ming Yuen | Aug 31, 2022 | Articles
“Young Workers Are Bridging the Climate and Labor Movements” – that’s the title of an article by journalist Leanna First-Arai that just appeared in Teen Vogue and Truthout. It features the Labor Network for Sustainability’s Young Workers Listening Project. The article...
by Ming Yuen | Aug 31, 2022 | Articles
Heat protection will be one of the key issues in the upcoming Teamsters negotiations at UPS for the biggest union contract in North America, which covers the majority of UPS’s 350,000 workers. The current contract expires next year. The Teamsters issued a public...
by Ming Yuen | Aug 31, 2022 | Articles
A pair of new commentaries by Making a Living on a Living Planet’s editor Jeremy Brecher provides dozens of examples of how unions in the most diverse industries and occupations are creating their own Green New Deal-type programs in localities around the country. The...
by Ming Yuen | Aug 31, 2022 | Articles
Under pressure from unions and environmental groups, the U.S. Postal Service just announced that 40% of its new delivery vehicles will be electric. In April the United Auto Workers and the National Resources Defense Council sued the U.S. Postal Service over its plan...
