by BrendanS | May 10, 2015 | Articles, Labor and Climage Action, Labor-Environmental Cooperation, LNS News, post
[By Jeremy Brecher; Original Published in the Nation Magazine] Under banners proclaiming “Healthy Planet & Good Jobs,” thousands of trade unionists from 75 local and national unions, highly visible in their red, blue, green, and white union uniforms, joined the...
by BrendanS | Mar 7, 2015 | Articles, Just Transition, Labor-Environmental Cooperation, LNS News, post
[By Joe Uehlein] Thousands of trade unionists and seventy-five local and national unions participated in the Peoples Climate March in New York in September — a quantum leap from any previous labor participation in climate action. Climate protection has become a...
by BrendanS | Feb 2, 2015 | Articles, Labor-Environmental Cooperation, LNS News, post
The Labor Network for Sustainability today called for environmentalists and other allies of organized labor to support oil refinery workers who went on strike this week. Joe Uehlein, Executive Director of LNS, said, “Oil refinery workers are in the front line of...
by BrendanS | Mar 28, 2013 | Labor-Environmental Cooperation, Uncategorized
by Gus Speth and Joe Uehlein During our many decades of work in the labor and environmental movements, there have been many battles that led to tensions between our communities. The Keystone Pipeline is only the most recent example. To help overcome these challenges,...
