July 5, 2007 This is the seventh piece in GLS’s series on Labor and Global Warming. By campaigning against the Kyoto agreement, and until recently remaining silent on the corporate strategy to bamboozle the American people into allowing carbon pollution to burgeon unabated, the U.S. labor movement will be widely seen as complicit… Read More »
LABOR ASSEMBLY ON THE CLIMATE CRISIS
May 16, 2007 Global warming is becoming a huge issue – perhaps the greatest single threat facing humanity. It is forcing escalating reconsideration on every institution, from government to business, to religion. How has the labor movement in the U.S. and around the world responded, and what challenges does the issue of global warming… Read More »
A CLARION CALL
May 13, 2007 The reality of global warming and its catastrophic consequences are today beyond debate. But American labor is caught in an internal stalemate among those who fear job loss from efforts to deal with global warming, those who have not considered global warming an important union issue, and those who see the… Read More »
GLOBAL WARMING: MARKETS AND DEMOCRACY
May 13, 2007 This is the sixth in GLS’s series on Labor and Global Warming. The danger of global warming was recognized in the 1960s, and by the 1980s its effects were already becoming apparent. Yet significant action to limit it has only just begun. Meanwhile, the total amount of greenhouse gases emitted into… Read More »