by Ming | Oct 9, 2019 | Articles, Climate Strike, Green New Deal
After months of organizing, hundreds of Amazon employees walked off their jobs September 20 demanding that the company do more for climate protection. According to Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, more than 1,800 employees in over 25 cities in 14 countries had...
by Ming | Oct 9, 2019 | Articles, Climate Strike, Green New Deal, Jobs and Climate
Fridays Youth around the world will continue the weekly Friday school strikes for climate they have been conducting for the past year. Next strike The global climate strike coalition will shortly announce the date for a climate strike in November or early December....
by Ming | Oct 9, 2019 | Articles, Climate Strike, Green New Deal, Jobs and Climate
Two prominent international labor lawyers, one of them an official of the AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Center, have just published an article in Equal Times saying “Unions Must Join the Global Climate Strike to Avert a Climate Catastrophe.” The authors, who write in a...
by Ming | Oct 9, 2019 | Articles, Climate Strike, Green New Deal
LNS joined Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace USA, Oil Change International, and other environmental groups to express their solidarity with United Autoworkers members striking at General Motors. Their letter read: On behalf of our millions of members and...
by Ming | Sep 17, 2019 | Articles, Climate Strike
This week, Service Employees (SEIU) President Mary Kay Henry sent local SEIU leaders this message: When the SEIU Executive Board voted on a resolution supporting the Green New Deal, we said that we would join with the climate and environmental justice movement in...
by Ming | Sep 17, 2019 | Articles, Climate Strike
A thousand Amazon employees have signed a form pledging to walk out on September 20 in support of youth climate strikers. According to this article in Vox, an informational letter to Amazon workers from Amazon Employees for Climate Justice said, “We need bold,...
