by BrendanS | Jun 29, 2011 | Articles, Jobs and Climate, Labor and Climage Action, post
[by Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith] More than two million American construction workers — nearly one in five — are currently unemployed. Factories that produce building materials are operating at only half their capacity. So when a private company...
by Ming | Nov 1, 2010 | Jobs and Climate, post
[By Brendan Smith and Jim Young, National Education Director at the Blue Green Alliance] Climate change is not a far off threat — the impacts are already being felt in California and they’re going to get steadily worse in the coming decades. For more than...
by Ming | Oct 13, 2010 | Jobs and Climate, Labor and Climage Action, post
Why Climate Change Matters for California Workers [A Discussion Paper by the Labor Network for Sustainability; PDF version with footnotes is available here] California is at the forefront of driving the expansion of the clean energy economy. California’s...
by Ming | Oct 3, 2010 | Jobs and Climate, post
[By Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher] The climate denial lobby behind Proposition 23 in California argues they’re fighting to protect jobs by overturning what they like to call California’s “Job Killing Global Warming Law.” But don’t be...
by Ming | Jun 13, 2010 | Jobs and Climate, post
[By Brendan Smith, original posted on HuffingtonPost] With gallows humor, my fellow oystermen around the country have been passing around a Youtube clip of a 1960 educational film produced by the oil industry entitled “Lifeline to an Oyster.” This reel...
