by Ming | Nov 6, 2019 | Articles, Climate Strike, Green New Deal
Resolution #4 A Resolution to Address the Climate Crisis and Inequality Crisis and Create Union Jobs WHEREAS, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has determined humanity has less than twelve years to accomplish massive reductions in carbon emissions to...
by Ming | Oct 9, 2019 | Articles, Climate Strike, Green New Deal
An estimated 7.6 million people joined the global climate strike September 20-27, making it the largest demonstration against climate change in the world’s history. There were more than six thousand events in 185 countries. 1.4 million participated in Germany; 1...
by Ming | Oct 9, 2019 | Articles, Climate Strike, Green New Deal
After months of organizing, hundreds of Amazon employees walked off their jobs September 20 demanding that the company do more for climate protection. According to Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, more than 1,800 employees in over 25 cities in 14 countries had...
by Ming | Oct 9, 2019 | Articles, Climate Strike, Green New Deal, Jobs and Climate
Fridays Youth around the world will continue the weekly Friday school strikes for climate they have been conducting for the past year. Next strike The global climate strike coalition will shortly announce the date for a climate strike in November or early December....
by Ming | Oct 9, 2019 | Articles, Climate Strike, Green New Deal, Jobs and Climate
Two prominent international labor lawyers, one of them an official of the AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Center, have just published an article in Equal Times saying “Unions Must Join the Global Climate Strike to Avert a Climate Catastrophe.” The authors, who write in a...