March 10, 2008 By Tim Costello, Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher This week GLS staff will be attending the Blue-Green Alliance’s “Good Jobs, Green Jobs: A National Green Jobs Conference” scheduled for March 13-14 in Pittsburgh. We will be covering the event for The Nation.com and in preparation have published the following article. We… Read More »
POLICY ISSUES FACING THE “GREEN JOBS” ALLIANCE
February 29, 2009 (fourth in a series on labor and global warming after Bali) Combating climate change requires unprecedented economic and social change. The world has never done anything like cutting greenhouse gasses before. While the need to do so is now certain, the policies that will be required to do so are not. … Read More »
ARENAS FOR THE GREEN JOBS ALLIANCE
February 22, 2008 third in a series on labor and global warming after Bali In a previous post, we described an upcoming conference on Green Jobs sponsored by the Blue-Green Alliance, a “strategic partnership” of the United Steelworkers union and the environmentalist Sierra Club. And we described how the emerging labor-environmentalist coalition could have… Read More »
TURTLES AND TEAMSTERS TOGETHER AGAIN?
February 12, 2008 (second in a series on labor and global warming after Bali) At the 1999 “Battle of Seattle” against the World Trade Organization, a prominent sign celebrated the emerging labor-environmental coalition with the slogan, “Turtles and Teamsters: Together at Last!” The threat of global warming is updating that slogan to “Turtles and… Read More »
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