by Ming | Mar 10, 2016 | Articles, Jobs and Climate, Labor and Climage Action
[By Jeremy Brecher] One in six Americans say they would personally engage in nonviolent civil disobedience against corporate or government activities that make global warming worse. That’s about 40 million adults. The fate of the earth may depend on them — and others...
by BrendanS | Jan 20, 2016 | Articles, Just Transition, Labor and Climage Action
[By Jeremy Brecher] As nearly 200 nations gathered in Paris approved the UN Climate Change Agreement, the AFL-CIO issued a statement that broke new ground on climate. While the AFL-CIO opposed the Kyoto climate agreement and never supported the failed Copenhagen...
by BrendanS | May 10, 2015 | Articles, Labor and Climage Action, Labor-Environmental Cooperation, LNS News, post
[By Jeremy Brecher; Original Published in the Nation Magazine] Under banners proclaiming “Healthy Planet & Good Jobs,” thousands of trade unionists from 75 local and national unions, highly visible in their red, blue, green, and white union uniforms, joined the...
by BrendanS | Sep 20, 2014 | Articles, Labor and Climage Action, LNS News, post
Labor needs to propose a climate protection strategy of its own — one that realistically protects the livelihood and wellbeing of working people and helps reverse America’s trend to greater inequality while reducing greenhouse gas emissions at the speed...
by Ming | Aug 5, 2014 | Articles, Labor and Climage Action, pdf
Introduction Download PDF 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 protection. This “guided tour” of the “labor-climate landscape” is...
by BrendanS | Jul 7, 2014 | Articles, Labor and Climage Action
[By Jeremy Brecher]Delegates to Connecticut State Council of Machinists (CSCM) conference at the end of June voted unanimously to endorse and participate in the historic People’s Climate March set for Sunday, September 21, 2014 in Manhattan. This was just the most...
