by Ming | Dec 20, 2019 | Articles, Climate Strike, Jobs and Climate
The Labor Network for Sustainability has just issued a briefing paper called “The Juliana Youth Climate Case: What’s It Mean for Labor?” maintaining that a climate rights lawsuit against the US government by 21 youth plaintiffs provides unions a valuable opportunity...
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, Jobs and Climate
I had just become president in 2014. We started a campaign about the working stations. And then it occurred to me, the next time I talk to the Chief Operating Officer of the company I’m going to ask him if there is any way that someone from the union itself could be...
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...
