by Ming | Mar 31, 2020 | Articles, GND Labor Endorsements Top, Green New Deal, LNS News
LNS, in collaboration with Taylor Mayes of Connecticut Roundtable on Climate and Jobs, is launching a social media campaign to honor Earth Day, April 22, through May Day. While youth climate strikes plan to go digital in light of the pandemic, LNS is doing its part by...
by Ming | Feb 6, 2020 | Articles, GND Labor Endorsements Top, Green New Deal, Jobs and Climate, Politics of Climate Change
Ryan Pollock, an inside wireman with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) writes about the recent AFL-CIO Convention in Texas: Not only were many of my fellow trades siblings—plenty of whom work in the fossil fuel industry or represent fossil...
by Ming | Dec 20, 2019 | Articles, GND Labor Endorsements Top, Green New Deal
What will happen to workers in fossil fuel related industries if the shift to a climate-safe economy threatens their jobs? While it is easy to advocate for a “just transition,” it is not so easy to spell out just how that can be accomplished. Proposals for a Green New...
by Ming | Aug 29, 2019 | Articles, Climate Strike, GND Labor Endorsements Top, Green New Deal
The Blue-Green Alliance, which unites large labor and environmental organizations, recently released the statement “Solidarity for Climate Action” calling for Rapid GHG emissions reductions—based on the latest science and in line with our fair share—which would put...
by Ming | Aug 29, 2019 | Articles, Climate Strike, GND Labor Endorsements Top, Green New Deal
A recent article by LNS Research and Policy Director Jeremy Brecher in the Great Transition Forum argues that the climate movement has entered a new historic phase, pioneered by the Sunrise Movement, the Student Strike for Climate, and the Extinction Rebellion and...
