by ctruecolors | Feb 6, 2020 | Articles, Green New Deal, Jobs and Climate, Just Transition
The American Postal Workers Union has taken on the climate crisis within the national union structure by following up on their last national convention resolution “Climate Change, Jobs and Justice.” At its recent national All-Craft conference held in Las Vegas, the...
by ctruecolors | Dec 20, 2019 | Articles, Climate Strike, Jobs and Climate, Just Transition
“As workers organizations we are faced with a very important responsibility. Social progress, has never come for free, without struggle from the people affected. This is also the case for climate protection. We need to fight for our place at the table and to see that...
by BrendanS | Jul 6, 2016 | Articles, Just Transition, LNS News, Uncategorized
An Analysis of Language, Strategies, and Projects A JOINT PROJECT OF: Labor Network for Sustainability 11 Pine Avenue Takoma Park, Maryland 20912 info@labor4sustainability.org website: www.labor4sustainability.org Strategic Practice: Grassroots Policy Project 1515...
by ctruecolors | May 23, 2016 | Articles, Jobs and Climate, Just Transition, Labor and Climage Action
[By Jeremy Brecher] In a small church in the Albany, NY’s low-income, predominantly African-American South End, forty people were gathered for a community meeting. They were organizing a protest against trains carrying potentially explosive oil – dubbed by the...
by BrendanS | Jan 20, 2016 | Articles, Just Transition, Labor and Climage Action
[By Jeremy Brecher] As nearly 200 nations gathered in Paris approved the UN Climate Change Agreement, the AFL-CIO issued a statement that broke new ground on climate. While the AFL-CIO opposed the Kyoto climate agreement and never supported the failed Copenhagen...
by BrendanS | Aug 6, 2015 | Articles, Just Transition, post
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has just issued the final text of the Clean Power Plan (CPP), a regulation whose purpose is to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) that climate scientists say are causing global warming. EPA and independent studies...
