Climate Strikes
No Worker Left Behind in the Green New Deal
What will happen to workers in fossil fuel related industries if the shift to a climate-safe economy threatens their jobs?
Check Out LNS’s Virtual Convergence 2: Labor Voices on the Green New Deal Recording
If you missed it…Check out: Labor Network for Sustainability’s Virtual Convergence 2: Labor Voices on the Green New Deal Recording
Juliana: Why Climate Rights Matter to Labor
The Labor Network for Sustainability has just issued a briefing paper called “The Juliana Youth Climate Case: What’s It Mean for Labor?” maintaining that a climate rights lawsuit against the US government by 21 youth plaintiffs provides unions a valuable opportunity to ally with youth climate activists.
Global Labor Movement Voice the Global Climate Conference
“As workers organizations we are faced with a very important responsibility. Social progress, has never come for free, without struggle from the people affected. This is also the case for climate protection. We need to fight for our place at the table and to see that our demands for climate justice are taken into account.”
Union Members Overwhelmingly Support the Green New Deal
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (center) speaks on the Green New Deal with Senator Ed Markey (right) in front of the Capitol Building in February 2019. Credit: Senate Democrats.
Maine AFL-CIO: ‘The Time Is NOW for Labor to Engage with Climate’
The Maine AFL-CIO just passed a resolution at its October Convention “to Address the Climate Crisis and Inequality Crisis and Create Union Jobs.” The resolution said climate change poses “an immediate and long-term threat to all working class people, our communities and our economic security.”
Amalgamated Transit Union Bus Drivers Steer Procurement to Electric Busses
Mustafa Salahuddin is the president and business agent of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1316 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. In this edited interview with Labor Network for Sustainability, he tells how the local became part of the company procurement process—leading the company to convert to climate-safe electric buses. Credits Taylor Mayes, Connecticut Roundtable on Climate and Jobs.
Want a Model Climate Resolution for Your Union?
Many unions are considering resolutions on climate change. Here’s one just passed by the local executive board of the Rutgers University AAUP-AFT, that endorses the Green New Deal, demands that Rutgers develop a climate action plan to be carbon neutral, and proclaims...
At 101, Chicago Teachers Union Activist Bea Lumpkin Says Educators Have a ‘Special Responsibility’ in the Struggle to Mitigate Climate Change
Reporting on the LNS National Labor Convergence on Climate this past June, labor veteran Bea Lumpkin described a special meeting of educators at the conference.
Bargaining for the Common Good: How Workers Can Demand Climate Justice
An article by four labor and climate activists recently published in the American Prospect calls for a “Bargaining for the Common Good” approach to the climate crisis.