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 »
LABOR AFTER BALI
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 »
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