by Ming | Mar 31, 2020 | Articles, GND Labor Endorsements, Green New Deal, LNS News
In a new series of commentaries, LNS Research and Policy Director Jeremy Brecher argues that, in the face of government and employer failure, workers and communities must take the lead to protect ourselves and each other from the coronavirus and its economic and...
by Ming | Mar 31, 2020 | Articles, GND Labor Endorsements Top, Green New Deal, LNS News
LNS, in collaboration with Taylor Mayes of Connecticut Roundtable on Climate and Jobs, is launching a social media campaign to honor Earth Day, April 22, through May Day. While youth climate strikes plan to go digital in light of the pandemic, LNS is doing its part by...
by Ming | Mar 31, 2020 | Articles, LNS News
Unions and others around the world were just gearing up to make the Earth Day climate strikes and the subsequent “Earth Day to May Day” actions the greatest demonstrations on behalf of the earth and its people in history—when the coronavirus pandemic struck. Now the...
by Ming | Mar 31, 2020 | Articles, LNS News
On Thursday, February 27 thousands of Minneapolis cleaning workers walked off their jobs and struck their downtown commercial high-rises. Among their key demands was that their employers take action on climate change. It was one of the first if not the very first...
by Ming | Mar 31, 2020 | Articles, LNS News
Tired of timing your handwashing with Happy Birthday? Try the above from the American Federation of Musicians.