Climate Strikes
They Want to Strip America for Parts
America’s two largest unions, the National Education Association and the Service Employees International Union, are among dozens of sponsors of a nationwide mobilization April 5 “to stop the most brazen power grab in modern history.”
Washington Unions Say: Divest from Fossil Fuels to Protect State’s Assets
Washington trade unions, including UFCW and AFT, have begun organizing a campaign for the state to divest its pension and other funds from fossil fuels. As Jeff Johnson, a former President of the Washington State Labor Council and a longtime member of the LNS board recently wrote…
To Protect the Food Chain, Protect Immigrant Farm Workers
LNS Board member Edgar Franks is the political director of Familias Unidas por la Justicia, a farmworkers’ union in Skagit County, WA. He was recently interviewed on a Northwest Public Broadcasting feature on “Immigrant enforcement concerns farmers and farmworkers in Washington.”
The Greenpeace Verdict is a Threat to Labor
A jury in North Dakota jury recently ordered the environmental nonprofit Greenpeace to pay pipeline corporation Energy Transfer more than $660 million dollars for defamation and other claims connected to protests at the Dakota Access pipeline in 2016-17.
In Case You Haven’t Heard…
The just-released report of the World Meteorological Association on the state of the global climate in 2024 found that last year was the hottest on record and that for the first time in history the 10 hottest years on record all occurred in the last decade…
A Warning from Environmental Protection Workers
A group of current and former employees of the US Environmental Protection Agency recently issued this warning…
Are Climate and Infrastructure Funds Under Threat Near You?
Nearly $700 billion in funding for infrastructure- and climate-related projects were passed under the Inflation Reduction Act and the bipartisan infrastructure law.
What Really Happened in the First Trump Resistance?
As we grapple with how to live through and ultimately terminate the nightmare of the second Trump regime, we can gain a lot from examining the myths and the realities of the resistance to the first Trump regime.
The Four Expectable Axes of MAGA Action
The previous Commentary in this series laid out the unknowns – known and unknown — that will characterize the Trump presidency. But amidst the uncertainty, the main thrusts of the Trump regime are increasingly clear.
LNS Spotlight: Rich Kowalczyk
Richard (Rich) Kowalczyk was voted to be the first president of AFSCME Local 3599 when it was started in 2018 and continues to serve in that capacity. Rich had also been active as an executive board member at the chapter level for many years prior to Local 3599 being started.