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This March Congress passed the Postal Service Reform Act after 15 years of effort by labor and allies to fund and strengthen the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). The Act includes crucial objectives of postal worker unions: It ensures the USPS is financially stable, ends the destructive pre-funding retiree health care benefits mandate, and guarantees six-day delivery reforms.

Joel Batterman began working as a consultant with LNS in the fall of 2021, assisting with outreach for Transit Equity Day and conducting consultations with Transit Equity Day participants to help guide the future of the event.

For the past four years on February 4, Labor Network for Sustainability and a network of transit rider unions, community organizations, environmental groups and labor unions have organized Transit Equity Day (TED)–a national day of action to commemorate the birthday of Rosa Parks by declaring public transit a civil right. This year, TED made a big splash. Two states (Wisconsin and Minnesota) passed formal proclamations that declared February 4th Transit Equity Day—as did dozens of cities. Local transit activists organized more than 60 events across the country, LNS hosted a massive livestream, and we launched a transit equity workforce investment report with some of our partners!

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After years of facing challenges to their very existence as public service workers, the workers of the US Postal Service are close to finally achieving a measure of security with the February 8 passage of the Postal Service Reform Act in the House of Representatives by a vote of 342-92. The Bill now moves to the Senate and the unions are asking all of their members, family, friends, and supporters to call your US Senators to urge a YES vote on the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022 by calling: 1-833-924-0085.

The Green Workers Alliance is a new multiracial organization that fights for more and better green jobs. More than 400 workers have already joined GWA online. On-the-ground organizing will begin in Virginia and other southeastern states this spring.

The federal rollout of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (“IIJA” – colloquially known as the “Bipartisan Infrastructure Law”) is now beginning…

The Labor Network for Sustainability joined more than 1,100 organizations in a letter asking President Joe Biden to declare a climate emergency and to use his executive authority to fight climate change. It called for Biden to keep his promise that “environmental justice will be at the center of all we do addressing the disproportionate health and environmental and economic impacts on communities of color.”

In November 2022 the Biden Administration prepared to sell oil and gas permits for 80 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico – the largest such sale in US history. Now a federal court has halted the sale because of the failure to adequately assess the impact on climate change.