November 11, 2009 The attack that drove “green jobs czar” Van Jones from the White House this week is an attack on labor and on workers’ best hope for good jobs. If labor wants to promote green jobs, labor should embrace Van Jones – publicly, loudly, and fast – at the upcoming AFL-CIO Convention. Van… Read More »
WHAT THE CBO ISN’T TELLING CONGRESS: CLIMATE CHANGE THREATENS MILLIONS OF JOBS
November 9, 2009 While fewer and fewer people are willing to publicly deny the validity of global warming science, those who oppose action to protect the climate have taken up a new strategy: Denying that climate change will have a major impact on the U.S. economy. This denial is rejected by most economists who… Read More »
UNIONS NEED TO SEVER ALL TIES WITH ANTI-CLIMATE BILL GROUPS
October 22, 2009 Under escalating pressure from activists, Nike, the utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric Company, and others have publicly resigned from the US Chamber of Commerce over its opposition to climate protection policies. It’s time for labor unions to follow suit by cutting all ties with groups opposing climate legislation like the… Read More »
LABOR’S STAKE IN CLIMATE CHANGE
October 19, 2009 Climate change will directly affect most American workplaces not in some theoretical future but in the working lives of those now in the industry. And their unions will be affected right along with them. New Orleans was perhaps the most highly unionized city in the South. But when Katrina hit, unions… Read More »
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