by Ming | Jun 5, 2010 | Just Transition, post
by Joe Uehlein “There are no jobs on a dead planet.” That’s how one union leader answered those who say that unions should be concerned only about jobs, and leave the planet to someone else to take care of. Many unions and both labor federations...
by BrendanS | Apr 1, 2010 | Just Transition, post
Today the American labor movement””like the rest of American society and like labor movements throughout the world””is being forced to grapple with climate change and climate change mitigation. Organized labor’s approach to climate change is...
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 | Feb 9, 2010 | Just Transition, Labor-Environmental Cooperation, post
By Joe Uehlein, Labor Network for Sustainability [PDF version of this report is available here] Thousands of “green jobs” have been created by President Obama’s stimulus package; millions more will be created by proposed climate legislation; tens of...
by BrendanS | Jan 28, 2010 | Just Transition, post
by Tim Costello and the Labor Network for Sustainability [PDF version of this report is available here] [“Labor and Climate Change” is a briefing paper that provides activists inside and outside the labor movement a way to understand the interests and...
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...
