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Flight Attendants President says ‘We Know Climate Change is a Huge Threat’
Sara Nelson, who will open the first panel at the LNS Labor Convergence on Climate in June, is international president of the Association of Flight Attendants representing 50,000 workers across 20 airlines. In a recent article for Vox, Nelson writes that flight...
Student Strikers Call for Adults to Join Climate Strike September 20
On August 20, 2018 a fourteen-year-old Swedish schoolgirl sat down alone in front of the Swedish Parliament with a sign saying “Student Strike for Climate.” Soon thousands of students around the world began joining her weekly actions. By March 15, 2019 one-and-a-half...
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...
Trade Union VP Says General Strike Necessary to Halt Climate Disaster
At a May conference in New York City, Amalgamated Transit Union VP Bruce Hamilton (pictured right), urged U.S. trade unionists to “learn from our past” and start building towards a general strike in a last ditch effort to avert climate disaster. “What we need to...
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,...
Where should labor stand on anti-protest legislation?
As fossil fuel advocates have increasingly lost the battle for public opinion, they are increasingly turning to government repression as a way to pursue their policy preferences. According to the US Protest Law Tracker, since the election of Donald Trump 14 states...
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....