Green New Deal News
EPA Workers Need Your Help to Protect Your Climate!
Environmental Protection Agency workers protect the air we breathe, the water we drink, and ensure a healthy environment for everyone. In the face of devastating climate change, we need them more than ever. The Trump Administration is gutting the EPA—slashing funding,...
Union Teachers Spreading the Word on Climate
How can unions educate their members about climate change? The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) just provided a sterling example. The entire current issue of its magazine American Educator is devoted to teachers and climate change. It is available free online....
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
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.
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...
Signs of the Times: Arts Kit for the Green New Deal
Looking for beautiful and powerful graphics for your activities around labor, climate, and the Green New Deal? The Labor Network for Sustainability has partnered with 350.org and engaged artists to create “Green New Deal Arts: Signs of the Times” to share images that people can carry in the streets to help organize for and win a Green New Deal.
Rutgers AAUP-AFT
Resolution in Support of the Green New Deal, Student Climate Strikes, and a Climate Action Plan for Rutgers University WHEREAS As a result of human-caused greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, primarily associated with the combustion of fossil fuels, the global climate is...
How Labor Can Support the Youth-Led Climate Strikes September 20-27
Thousands of workers and major unions are supporting the youth-led student climate strikes September 20-27. See how workers and union can join them.
Poll Shows Union Members Support the Green New Deal Nearly Three to One
A poll by YouGov Blue on behalf of Data for Progress shows brought support for the Green New Deal from union members.
The Third National Labor Convergence on Climate, Chicago, June 28-23, 2019
The Labor Network for Sustainability held its Third National Labor Convergence on Climate in Chicago, June 28-29. The theme was “Strengthening Labor’s Voice to Help Shape Green New Deal.”
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,...