by Jeremy Brecher published on truth-out.org on 25 May 2016 In a small church in the Albany, New York’s low-income, predominantly African-American South End, forty people were gathered for a community meeting. They were organizing a protest against trains carrying potentially explosive oil — dubbed by the residents “bomb trains” — that were running through… Read More »
American Unions Form Alliance to Prevent Climate Disaster and Promote Prosperity
By Joe Uehlein and Jeremy Brecher Published by the Labor Network for Sustainability Step by step the American labor movement is increasingly recognizing and responding to the threat of climate change. While the AFL-CIO never supported the Kyoto or Copenhagen climate agreements on the grounds that they were bad for jobs and the American economy,… Read More »
Union Members Don’t Oppose Environmental Protections. They’re Actually More Likely To Support Them.
By Jeremy Brecher and Todd Vachon published on inthesetimes.com on May 23, 2016 Union workers attacking environmentalists—it has become a trope of our time. But what do union members actually think about the environment? In a study soon to be published in Labor Studies Journal, we report our findings on workers attitudes and behaviors regarding a… Read More »
Are Union Members More or Less Likely to Be Environmentalists? Some Evidence from Two National Surveys
By Todd E. Vachon and Jeremy Brecher published in Labor Studies Vol. 41(2) p.185-203, June 2016 Abstract This study examines the relationship between unionization and environmental attitudes and behaviors in two national surveys. We begin by comparing the responses of union versus nonunion respondents to sixteen environmental questions in the General Social Survey for various… Read More »