by BrendanS | Nov 30, 2009 | Labor and Climage Action, post
[This is the first in a series of LNS posts as representatives of trade unions around the world head off to Copenhagen] While world leaders play the “blame game” for their failure to negotiate a binding climate agreement in Copenhagen, trade unions from...
by BrendanS | Nov 12, 2009 | Jobs and Climate, Just Transition, Labor and Climage Action, post
The Labor Network for Sustainability (LNS) released a White Paper today arguing that current House and Senate climate bills do not do enough to protect workers, and laying out an alternative strategy for worker protection. The White Paper, Climate Legislation Must...
by BrendanS | Nov 5, 2009 | post
While fewer and fewer people are willing to publicly deny the validity of global warming science, those who oppose action to protect the climate have taken up a new strategy: Denying that climate change will have a major impact on the U.S. economy. This denial is...
by BrendanS | Oct 20, 2009 | post
Calling all labor movement climate and sustainability activists: The Labor Network for Sustainability needs you — And you need it. Are you in the labor movement? Are you concerned about a sustainable future? Climate change? Economic justice? If so, you...
by BrendanS | Oct 19, 2009 | issues, Labor and Climage Action, post
Climate change will directly affect most American workplaces not in some theoretical future but in the working lives of those now in the industry. And their unions will be affected right along with them. New Orleans was perhaps the most highly unionized city in the...
by BrendanS | May 1, 2009 | Labor and Climage Action, Politics of Climate Change, post
[Cross-posted with HuffingtonPost.com] Under escalating pressure from activists, Nike, the utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric Company, and others have publicly resigned from the US Chamber of Commerce over its opposition to climate protection policies....
