Green New Deal News
An Educational Tool on Climate Change for Workers
The Convergence unveiled a new tool, a PowerPoint presentation headlined “We Need a National Political and Economic Mobilization to Confront the Climate Crisis.”
Engaging the Members: Doing a Local Inventory of Jobs and Climate
A Convergence workshop led by John Harrity, retired President of the Connecticut International Association of Machinists and chair of the Connecticut Roundtable on Climate and Jobs (pictured above), consumer-tested a survey that unions and other labor organizations can use to find out the impact of climate change on our members’ jobs and communities—and to stimulate a discussion of what that means for labor.
LNS Lays Out Next Steps for Labor Climate Action
In a follow-up letter to Convergence participants LNS Executive Director Michael Leon Guererro laid out these next steps for trade unionists to mobilize their unions to fight for and help shape the Green New Deal.
RWU Resolution in Support of a Green New Deal
Railroad Workers United resolution in support of the Green New Deal.
Making the Green New Deal Work for Workers
The Labor Network for Sustainability has called on all members of Congress who support the Green New Deal to co-sponsor legislation to protect the pension and health benefits of coal miners. For many years the fossil fuel industry and its supporters have characterized...
Labor Convergence on Climate: A Labor Voice for the Green New Deal
The Labor Network for Sustainability will hold its third National Labor Convergence on Climate June 28-30. This year’s theme is “Strengthening Labor’s Voice to Help Shape the Green New Deal.” The major goal of the Convergence is to produce an action agenda for labor...
Massachusetts Teachers Union Calls for Strike for the Green New Deal
With more than 1,200 delegates attending, the Massachusetts Teachers Association approved a resolution “That the MTA delegation to the 2019 NEA Representative Assembly propose a national teachers strike in support of the Green New Deal.” The submitters’ rationale...
LNS at Green New Deal Town Halls Across New Jersey
The Labor Network for Sustainability helped to organize and participated in a series of Green New Deal Town Halls across the state of New Jersey this spring. Working with the Sunrise Movement, SEIU 32BJ, the Sierra Club, BlueWave NJ, and ForwardNotBack, a pro-worker,...
New SEIU Resolution Reveals Broad Labor Support for the Green New Deal
The Labor Network for Sustainability (LNS), an organization devoted to "making a living on a living planet," applauds today's endorsement of the Green New Deal by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). LNS president Joe Uehlein said, "Climate change is an...
American Federation of Teachers, Oregon (AFT-OR) Endorses the Green New Deal
Resolution #2019 -4 (amended to include #2019-5) Resolution to Endorse the Oregon and the National Green New Deals Whereas, the ongoing and ever-worsening climate catastrophe mandates an urgent response; and Whereas, the proposals for addressing carbon emissions and...
Oregon State Association of Letter Carriers (OSALC) Supports the Green New Deal
Resolution: Support the Green New Deal Whereas: climate change threatens all people (our customers) but especially letter carriers, who work outside facing its dangerous effects: huge wild fires, freezing polar vortices, monster hurricanes, etc., and Whereas: the U.N....
Strengthen Labor’s Voice to Help Shape the Green New Deal
On Friday, June 28 through Sunday, June 30, 2019, the Labor Network for Sustainability will hold its Third National Labor Convergence on Climate in Chicago. In the spirit of this year's theme, which is: Strengthening Labor's Voice to Help Shape the Green New Deal...
Packed Bay Area Convergence on Climate Plans for Green New Deal
by Veronica Wilson, Labor Network for Sustainability On April 13, 150 local labor leaders, members and organizers, along with ally organizations gathered for the Alameda Labor Council, AFL-CIO Labor Convergence on Climate. The Convergence was co-hosted by Labor...
New Labor Endorsements for the Green New Deal
San Francisco Labor Council GND Resolution Labor resolution shows unified support for a Green New Deal with strong labor and community provisions. The San Francisco Labor Council, AFL-CIO is publicly calling a Green New Deal “that includes a strong and binding...
Making the Green New Deal Work for Workers
LNS’s policy and research director Jeremy Brecher lays out what labor needs from the Green New Deal in a special issue of In These Times on “Getting to Zero.” The Green New Deal presents the American working class with the greatest opportunity for improving our lives...
Union Locals Build Support for the Green New Deal’s ‘Just Transition’
An article by Candice Bernd in Truthout asks, “What would a just transition actually mean for fossil fuel workers, and what must proponents do to win labor’s support?” She provides answers from LNS President Joe Uehlein, Executive Director Michael Guerrero, and Dave...
Some Tough Questions on the Green New Deal
by Jeremy Brecher, LNS Research and Policy Director Trade unionists have been asking some TOUGH questions about the GND. Here are some examples -- and a few quick responses that don't aim to provide complete answers, but to highlight the top lines of more detailed...
The Dual Crisis of Ecology and Inequality
Looking for material on labor and climate for powerpoint presentations and handouts? Here is an outstanding set from LNS’s Dr. Todd Vachon on “The Current Moment: A Dual Crisis of Ecology and Inequality.”
Watch Todd’s presentation at a New Jersey forum on the Green New Deal »