by Ming | Dec 20, 2019 | Articles, Climate Strike, Jobs and Climate, Just Transition
“As workers organizations we are faced with a very important responsibility. Social progress, has never come for free, without struggle from the people affected. This is also the case for climate protection. We need to fight for our place at the table and to see that...
by Ming | Nov 13, 2019 | Articles, Climate Strike, Jobs and Climate
The Maine AFL-CIO just passed a resolution at its October Convention “to Address the Climate Crisis and Inequality Crisis and Create Union Jobs.” The resolution said climate change poses “an immediate and long-term threat to all working class people, our communities...
by Ming | Nov 13, 2019 | Articles, Climate Strike
Reporting on the LNS National Labor Convergence on Climate this past June, labor veteran Bea Lumpkin described a special meeting of educators at the conference: Educators at the conference agreed that we have a special responsibility in the struggle to mitigate the...
by Ming | Nov 13, 2019 | Articles, Climate Strike
An article by four labor and climate activists recently published in the American Prospect calls for a “Bargaining for the Common Good” approach to the climate crisis. Bargaining for the Common Good (BCG) is an innovative way of building community-labor alignments,...
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...
