by BrendanS | Apr 30, 2009 | Labor and Climage Action, post
Some unions dissented early from AFL-CIO climate policy. In 1990 the Steelworkers, America’s largest and most diversified manufacturing union with a strong history of environmentalism created an executive board committee on environmental issues and issued a...
by BrendanS | Apr 29, 2009 | Articles, post
Obama’s climate czar Carol Browner said last week there will be no U.S. climate protection legislation before the Copenhagen conference and that she doesn’t know if a global agreement on binding cuts in greenhouse gas emissions can be made in Copenhagen. ...
by Ming | Apr 28, 2009 | issues, Just Transition, post
By Joe Uehlein with Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello, and Brendan Smith Workers have often felt threatened by measures to protect the environment. Today such fears are likely to be augmented, especially in a time of soaring unemployment, by the large changes necessary to...
