by Ming | May 23, 2016 | Articles, Jobs and Climate, Labor-Environmental Cooperation
[By Jeremy Brecher and Todd Vachon] Union workers attacking environmentalists—it has become a trope of our time. But what do union members actually think about the environment? In a study soon to be published in Labor Studies Journal, we report our findings on workers...
by BrendanS | Oct 29, 2015 | Articles, Jobs and Climate, Labor-Environmental Cooperation
When the Dominion Corporation proposed, on April 1, 2013, to build a liquefied natural gas export facility at Cove Point, Md., right on the Chesapeake Bay,seven hundred people demonstrated against it and many were arrested in a series of civil disobedience actions....
by BrendanS | Jun 12, 2015 | Articles, Labor-Environmental Cooperation, post
For Immediate Release: June 11, 2015 Contact: Tom Geiger, 206-604-3421 In a strong show of support for a better future, local labor unions have signed a letter to oppose the decision by the Port of Seattle Commission to permit the Shell Oil rig to have safe harbor in...
by BrendanS | May 10, 2015 | Articles, Labor and Climage Action, Labor-Environmental Cooperation, LNS News, post
[By Jeremy Brecher; Original Published in the Nation Magazine] Under banners proclaiming “Healthy Planet & Good Jobs,” thousands of trade unionists from 75 local and national unions, highly visible in their red, blue, green, and white union uniforms, joined the...
by BrendanS | Mar 7, 2015 | Articles, Just Transition, Labor-Environmental Cooperation, LNS News, post
[By Joe Uehlein] Thousands of trade unionists and seventy-five local and national unions participated in the Peoples Climate March in New York in September — a quantum leap from any previous labor participation in climate action. Climate protection has become a...
by BrendanS | Feb 2, 2015 | Articles, Labor-Environmental Cooperation, LNS News, post
The Labor Network for Sustainability today called for environmentalists and other allies of organized labor to support oil refinery workers who went on strike this week. Joe Uehlein, Executive Director of LNS, said, “Oil refinery workers are in the front line of...
