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Labor and Community Together on Storm Water Capture in Los Angeles
Above: LA County Federation of Labor President Rusty Hicks speaks in favor of improving LA’s storm water systems and committing funds to disadvantaged communities and ongoing maintenance to generate jobs and workforce training. By Veronica Wilson Recently, Los Angeles...
Unions in Washington Fight to Become the First State in the Nation to Put a Price on Carbon
Retired refinery worker Steve Garey shares why he supports Washington State Ballot Inititiave 1631. Watch the video » By Judy Twedt, Trustee UAW 4121 and Steering Committee Member, Yes on 1631 For over two years, unions across Washington State have been part of the...
Labor Rises for Climate, Jobs & Justice in San Francisco on September 8th
More than 700 trade unionists and other labor activists joined an estimated crowd of 30,000 people in San Francisco on September 8, 2018 to Rise for Climate, Jobs & Justice.
What South Florida Workers Know about Climate Change
Cynthia Hernandez, the Executive Director of the South Florida AFL-CIO, recently gave a presentation on South Florida unions initiative to address climate change to a LNS videoconference, Cynthia can be heard 14 minutes from start time.
Youth Climate Movement Backs Jobs Guarantee for All
The youth climate movement Sunrise has issued a call for a federal Jobs Guarantee that would provide jobs for all, focused on the transition to a climate-safe economy. Sunrise is a movement “to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process.
Government Workers Will Pay the Price of Climate Change
The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Workers just passed a new resolution on climate change. Advocates used this LNS fact sheet warning that “Government workers will pay the price of climate change” and that “The failure to limit global warming is turning the climate crisis into a fiscal crisis.”
Resolution to Endorse Mobilization September 8, 2018 in San Francisco: California Rise for Climate, Jobs & Justice
View the resolution in PDF here. Whereas, our members and our communities are suffering the ravages of pollution and climate change, as evidenced by extreme weather, unprecedented wild fires in urban areas and wilderness, continuing drought, rising temperatures,...
A Climate Constitution in the Courts and the Streets
By Jeremy Brecher What’s the Constitution got to do with climate? Current legal cases are now addressing that question. They are using the U.S. Constitution to bring climate protection into the courthouse. These cases range from youth demanding their constitutional...
The New Poor People’s Campaign: Seeds of a Non-Party Opposition?
All of us who have participated in one or another aspect of what has come to be known as the Trump Resistance should think about how we should be connecting with the new Poor People’s Campaign—and with each other.
A Just Transition for Appalachia – Is There a Way?
Thirty thousand coal mining jobs have been lost since 2011. In central Appalachia, seven thousand miners lost their jobs from 2015 to 2016.54 The US Energy Information Administration expects central Appalachia’s coal output to decline nearly sixty percent by 2035,...
How New York City Won Divestment from Fossil Fuels
This campaign was years in the making, but Donald Trump’s election and the withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord spurred the local activism that led to this important victory.
A Labor Rights Statement of Support
Unions are often asked to support resolutions to protect the climate and the environment. Shouldn’t environmental and climate organizations be asked to pass comparable resolutions supporting worker rights? [Template Resolution Inside]
Transit Equity Day was a Success
On February 5th, campaigns across the country will be standing up for the rights of all people to high-quality public transportation powered by clean/renewable energy.
Fighting for Green Solutions to Pittsburgh’s “Sewage in the Rivers Problem”
Thomas Hoffman of the Sierra Club describes a community-labor-environment coalition to fight privatization and promote a $2-4 billion sewer renewal for the city’s regional water and sewer system.
NYC Public Pension Funds Fossil Fuels Divestment Campaign
By Nancy Romer
[Nancy Romer is a union and climate justice activist, a co-founder of the Environmental Justice committee of her union PSC-CUNY (AFT local #2334), and on the steering committees of Divest NY and Peoples Climate March-NY. She recently retired after 42 years of teaching at Brooklyn College, City University of New York and served on her union’s executive committee for nine years.]
