by BrendanS | Jun 27, 2012 | Labor and Climage Action, post
International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) The global trade union movement is bitterly disappointed at the Declaration of the Rio+20 Summit, a declaration that lacks the concrete measures necessary now to end senseless environmental destruction, drive investment...
by Ming | Nov 10, 2011 | Labor and Climage Action, Politics of Climate Change, post
LNS has been actively involved in shaping and organizing support for a “Statement of Our Nation’s Moral Obligation to Address Climate Change.” We hope LNS members will sign. To do so, click here: Climate Ethics Campaign We firmly believe that...
by Ming | Sep 26, 2011 | Articles, Jobs and Climate, Just Transition, Labor and Climage Action
[Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith] Climate change has arrived in America. What will it mean for your job? Climate change affecting my job? Many people have never even considered the possibility. They have been misled by false assurances like the testimony of Douglas...
by Ming | Sep 9, 2011 | Labor and Climage Action, Labor-Environmental Cooperation, pdf, post
Globalization and free-market economics made great promises to create a better life for everyone. Instead they have produced an economy that is increasingly unjust and unsustainable. Indeed, they have produced twin catastrophes — the economic crisis and the...
by BrendanS | Sep 6, 2011 | Articles, Labor and Climage Action
By Joe Uehlein This Labor Day, as union membership falls to a mere seven percent of private sector workers and bargaining and political clout shrink to match, two roads diverge for American labor. One is to attempt to find a niche within an economic-political system...
by BrendanS | Jun 29, 2011 | Articles, Jobs and Climate, Labor and Climage Action, post
[by Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith] More than two million American construction workers — nearly one in five — are currently unemployed. Factories that produce building materials are operating at only half their capacity. So when a private company...
