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Vermont Labor Council Initiates Social Self-Defense
by Traven Leyshon, president of the Green Mountain Labor Council, AFL-CIO and Communications & Community Engagement Coordinator Vermont State Labor Council, AFL-CIO Following on what was for many of us the surprise election of Trump, and the consolidation...
How a Railway Workers Union Won New Technology That Improves Jobs and Reduces Greenhouse Gases
By Karl (Fritz) Edler BLET Div. 482, retired Special Rep, Railroad Workers United Washington, DC This is the story of one group of workers who used their union to improve their own conditions – and fight climate change – by proposing and winning their own plan...
People’s Climate Movement Groups Call for Urgent Action for Standing Rock
The fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline brings together two critically important struggles for environmental justice: the centuries long struggle for respect for the sovereignty of Native tribes and the global battle to curtail the climate crisis. These issues...
U.S. Climate Envoy Jonathan Pershing: Five Feet Of Sea Level Rise By 2050 Possible
The original article written by Daphne Wysham can be found at the [Huffington Post] The mood in Marrakech was somber when top climate envoy for President Barack Obama Jonathan Pershing dropped a bombshell on observers gathered there: The rapid warming in polar regions...
Climate Emergency: Global Insurgency
There is no choice but to escalate today’s campaigns against global fossil fuel infrastructure
Jobs, Justice, and the Clean-Energy Future
A series of reports by the Labor Network for Sustainability (LNS), and partners provides good news: The U.S. can meet the targets for greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction that climate scientists say are necessary while also creating half-a-million jobs annually and reducing the cost of energy to consumers. The reports, gathered in the LNS Climate, Jobs, and Justice Project, also show that protecting the climate in a way that maximizes the benefit for working people and discriminated-against groups will take deliberate public policies and action by unions and their social movement allies.
Dakota Access Pipeline and the Future of American Labor
By Jeremy Brecher Labor Network for Sustainability As United States Energy Transfers Partners began building the Dakota Access Pipeline through territory sacred to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, the tribe began an escalating campaign against the pipeline. By this...
“Just Transition” – Just What Is It?
An Analysis of Language, Strategies, and Projects A JOINT PROJECT OF: Labor Network for Sustainability 11 Pine Avenue Takoma Park, Maryland 20912 [email protected] website: www.labor4sustainability.org Strategic Practice: Grassroots Policy Project 1515...
Why Trade Unionists Should March for a Clean Energy Revolution
By Joe Uehlein Labor Network for Sustainability The Labor Network for Sustainability is calling on trade unionists to go to Philadelphia to march for a Clean Energy Revolution on Sunday, July 24. Why? We face shocking new data that climate scientists have gathered in...
BEYOND A BAND-AID
A Discussion Paper on Protecting Workers and Communities in the Great Energy Transition
By Arjun Makhijani, Ph.D
This discussion paper presents a strategy for protecting workers and communities that may be threatened by the current and future transformation of the U.S. energy system. It is derived from the…
Michael Leon Guerrero Joining the LNS team as Executive Director
The Labor Network for Sustainability is very pleased to announce that Michael Leon Guerrero will be joining the LNS team as Executive Director. Michael has been the National Coordinator of the Climate Justice Alliance for the past two years. Last month Michael...
Climate, Jobs, and Justice: A plan for a just transition to a climate-safe economy
[By Jeremy Brecher] Can we radically reduce the climate-destroying greenhouse gases (GHGs) we put into the atmosphere, yet also increase jobs for American workers, protect those whose jobs may be threatened by climate policies, and reduce America’s inequality and injustice?…
