by BrendanS | Apr 9, 2010 | Jobs and Climate, post
By Brendan Smith Thanks to greenhouse gas emissions, it’s looking like my days as a commercial fisherman are numbered. I’ve been working the sea on-and-off my whole life. At 15 years old I quit high school to work the lobster boats out of Lynn, MA; later I...
by BrendanS | Mar 31, 2010 | Jobs and Climate, Just Transition, Labor and Climage Action, post
[This is the first in a series of posts designed to provide a strategy for addressing organized labor’s stake in climate change. Its goal is to provide activists inside and outside the labor movement with the information they need to help shape effective,...
by BrendanS | Dec 8, 2009 | Jobs and Climate, Just Transition, post
[Fifth in the series “Labor goes to Copenhagen] The effort to address the worst environmental catastrophe in human history is coming in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Business and governments have used economic...
by BrendanS | Nov 12, 2009 | Jobs and Climate, Just Transition, Labor and Climage Action, post
The Labor Network for Sustainability (LNS) released a White Paper today arguing that current House and Senate climate bills do not do enough to protect workers, and laying out an alternative strategy for worker protection. The White Paper, Climate Legislation Must...