December 18, 2007 (first in a series) Like an oil tanker hurtling toward a shoal, the world, the U.S., and the labor movement are being forced to make a radical change of course by the emerging threat of global warming. The recent UN conference on climate change, held in Bali last December, showed representatives… Read More »
LABOR GOES TO BALI – II
December 2, 2007 At the outset of the nuclear era, Albert Einstein said, “The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.” The same could be said today regarding global warming. Fortunately, we’re getting some glimmerings of a change in the modes… Read More »
LABOR GOES TO BALI
November 25, 2007 This week trade unionists from around the world will travel to Bali for the December 3rd launch of negotiations for a successor to the Kyoto Protocol limiting greenhouse gasses. It will include delegates from such U.S unions as the Electrical Workers (IUE), Mine Workers, Service Employees, Boilermakers, Steelworkers, Communication Workers, Transport… Read More »
LABOR AND THE GREEN JOBS OF THE FUTURE
October 31, 2007 American auto workers and the UAW have been struggling – and even striking – to try to save their members’ jobs. In the last round of negotiations with GM and Chrysler the union won job guarantees for a segment of its shrinking membership. But tragically, most of the jobs it saved… Read More »
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