by BrendanS | Nov 30, 2009 | Labor and Climage Action, post
[This is the first in a series of LNS posts as representatives of trade unions around the world head off to Copenhagen] While world leaders play the “blame game” for their failure to negotiate a binding climate agreement in Copenhagen, trade unions from...
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...
by BrendanS | Oct 19, 2009 | issues, Labor and Climage Action, post
Climate change will directly affect most American workplaces not in some theoretical future but in the working lives of those now in the industry. And their unions will be affected right along with them. New Orleans was perhaps the most highly unionized city in the...
by BrendanS | May 1, 2009 | Labor and Climage Action, Politics of Climate Change, post
[Cross-posted with HuffingtonPost.com] Under escalating pressure from activists, Nike, the utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric Company, and others have publicly resigned from the US Chamber of Commerce over its opposition to climate protection policies....
by BrendanS | Apr 30, 2009 | Labor and Climage Action, post
Some unions dissented early from AFL-CIO climate policy. In 1990 the Steelworkers, America’s largest and most diversified manufacturing union with a strong history of environmentalism created an executive board committee on environmental issues and issued a...
