by Ming | Oct 13, 2010 | Jobs and Climate, Labor and Climage Action, post
Why Climate Change Matters for California Workers [A Discussion Paper by the Labor Network for Sustainability; PDF version with footnotes is available here] California is at the forefront of driving the expansion of the clean energy economy. California’s...
by Ming | Oct 3, 2010 | Jobs and Climate, post
[By Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher] The climate denial lobby behind Proposition 23 in California argues they’re fighting to protect jobs by overturning what they like to call California’s “Job Killing Global Warming Law.” But don’t be...
by Ming | Jun 13, 2010 | Jobs and Climate, post
[By Brendan Smith, original posted on HuffingtonPost] With gallows humor, my fellow oystermen around the country have been passing around a Youtube clip of a 1960 educational film produced by the oil industry entitled “Lifeline to an Oyster.” This reel...
by BrendanS | Apr 9, 2010 | Jobs and Climate, post
By Brendan Smith Thanks to greenhouse gas emissions, it’s looking like my days as a commercial fisherman are numbered. I’ve been working the sea on-and-off my whole life. At 15 years old I quit high school to work the lobster boats out of Lynn, MA; later I...
by BrendanS | Mar 31, 2010 | Jobs and Climate, Just Transition, Labor and Climage Action, post
[This is the first in a series of posts designed to provide a strategy for addressing organized labor’s stake in climate change. Its goal is to provide activists inside and outside the labor movement with the information they need to help shape effective,...
by BrendanS | Dec 8, 2009 | Jobs and Climate, Just Transition, post
[Fifth in the series “Labor goes to Copenhagen] The effort to address the worst environmental catastrophe in human history is coming in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Business and governments have used economic...
