May 19, 2009 By Brendan Smith & Jeremy Brecher As Americans are inundated with revelations about the lies, torture and other crimes that accompanied the US-led war in Iraq, many who resisted continue to be punished for refusing to participate in those crimes. First Lt. Ehren Watada, the first commissioned military officer to refuse… Read More »
LABOR AND CLIMATE CHANGE: A BRIEFING PAPER FOR ACTIVISTS
May 13, 2009 by Tim Costello and Jeremy Brecher “Labor and Climate Change” is a briefing paper that provides activists inside and outside the labor movement a way to understand theinterests and concerns of different segments of organized labor in climate change issues. It was the last major work by Tim Costello, who died in… Read More »
WILL WORKERS BE LEFT BEHIND IN A GREEN TRANSITION?
May 5, 2009 Editor’s note: This week GLS is posting an article by our colleague Joe Uehlein entitled “Will Workers be Left Behind in the Green Transition?” originally published at TheNation.com. We think this piece is a must read for trade unionists, environmentalists and others struggling to address the impacts of the climate crisis on… Read More »
LABOR’S CHANGING APPROACH TO CLIMATE CHANGE
April 30, 2009 Some unions dissented early from AFL-CIO climate policy. In 1990 the Steelworkers, America’s largest and most diversified manufacturing union with a strong history of environmentalism created an executive board committee on environmental issues and issued a policy statement saying that global warming “may be the single greatest problem we face. Some… Read More »
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