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Union Alliance Calls for Electric School Buses

Union Alliance Calls for Electric School Buses

On May 31, autoworkers and teachers rallied in Washington, DC to call on states, local governments, and school districts around the country to electrify the nation’s school bus fleet with union-built, climate-safe, pollution-free electric school buses.

Bridgeport CT Schools Seek Climate Safety for Teachers, Kids

Bridgeport CT Schools Seek Climate Safety for Teachers, Kids

Local initiatives around the country are advancing the goals of the Green New Deal and Build Back Better. A good example is the Bridgeport Carbon Free & Healthy Schools campaign. The campaign was launched May 14 at Bridgeport Public Schools’ Volunteer Day, where members of the building trades, teachers, parents, and students worked to make improvements to a Bridgeport school.

Unions Condemn Threat to Women’s Reproductive Rights

Unions Condemn Threat to Women’s Reproductive Rights

The Supreme Court has just overruled the fifty-year-old Roe v. Wade decision that protected women’s reproductive rights. In anticipation of the decision, unions joined women’s, civil rights and liberties, and many other groups to decry the threat to women’s healthcare and their right to control their own bodies and lives:

Young Workers – Converge!

Young Workers – Converge!

The Labor Network for Sustainability is holding a Young Worker Convergence in Los Angeles on September 15th-18th. Its purpose is to bring together young workers who feel that unions and union members have a crucial role to play in responding to the climate crisis.

Support the Poor People’s Campaign March in Washington!

Support the Poor People’s Campaign March in Washington!

Income inequality is the highest it has been in 100 years, and with that has come an all-out assault on the political and voting rights of working people. Add to that the devastating effects that Covid has had on workers lives and the economy, and onrushing economic and health impacts Climate Change are unleashing on workers and their families. We must build a mass movement that fights for working people on all fronts.

Webinar on LNS Just Transition Report

Webinar on LNS Just Transition Report

The Center for Global Work and Employment, Labor Education Action Research Network (LEARN) and Center for Environmental Justice at Colorado State University have recently sponsored a virtual discussion on the Just Transition Listening Project (JTLP)’s 2021 report Workers and Communities in Transition. You can watch the recording online on LEARN-TV.

Clean Trucks and Fairly-Treated Truckers

Clean Trucks and Fairly-Treated Truckers

Since truck deregulation, truck drivers are frequently misclassified as independent contractors rather than employees. That has turned much of truck driving from a well-paid, union-protected occupation to one with low wages, egregious working conditions, deprivation of benefits, and onerous costs that are shifted from the employer to the driver. How will new truck pollution regulations affect the workers who drive the trucks?

Labor Leader Tefere Gebre Builds Labor-Climate Alliance at Greenpeace

Labor Leader Tefere Gebre Builds Labor-Climate Alliance at Greenpeace

When Greenpeace boats formed a “floating picket” to support striking Chevron workers in Richmond, CA, one of those aboard was Tefere Gebre, until February the executive vice president of the AFL-CIO and now chief program officer at Greenpeace USA. Gebre described Greenpeace’s support for refinery workers as “a genuine attempt to build a transformational relationship” with the striking workers.