May 5, 2009 Editor’s note: This week GLS is posting an article by our colleague Joe Uehlein entitled “Will Workers be Left Behind in the Green Transition?” originally published at TheNation.com. We think this piece is a must read for trade unionists, environmentalists and others struggling to address the impacts of the climate crisis on… Read More »
LABOR’S CHANGING APPROACH TO CLIMATE CHANGE
April 30, 2009 Some unions dissented early from AFL-CIO climate policy. In 1990 the Steelworkers, America’s largest and most diversified manufacturing union with a strong history of environmentalism created an executive board committee on environmental issues and issued a policy statement saying that global warming “may be the single greatest problem we face. Some… Read More »
GLOBAL LABOR’S FORGOTTEN PLAN
March 16, 2009 by Tim Costello, Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher In the early 1930s, as global unemployment tripled in two years and the world plunged into the Great Depression, the world’s labor movements developed a program for fighting the global crisis through international public works. It’s a little-known historical might-have-been that could have… Read More »
CAN GREEN JOBS BE GOOD JOBS?
February 16, 2009 At the first Good Jobs, Green Jobs conference, held in Pittsburgh a year ago, advocates of green energy bemoaned their inability to get a modest renewable-energy tax credit through Congress over the opposition of the Bush administration. The idea of addressing the economic, energy and environmental crises through green jobs seemed… Read More »
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