Climate and Environment
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Labor and Climate Change: What Comes Next?
For a while, it looked like we’d have to choose: labor or climate; jobs or the planet. But with unions like the CWA increasingly calling for action on climate change, some of these once-divergent interests appear to be coming into alignment. As Samantha Page wrote in an article in ThinkProgress last week: The Climate and Community Protection…
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New Labor Forum Highlights: May 31st, 2016
The New Labor Forum has launched a bi-weekly newsletter on current topics in labor, curated by the some of the most insightful scholars and activists in the labor world today. Check out some highlights from the latest edition below. In this week’s newsletter, we begin by taking a closer look at workers in the energy industries. New Labor Forum…
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Congress of Unions in São Paulo Urges Governments to Stop Fracking
With Dilma’s impeachment imminent, unions unite against “coups and corruption.” TUCA-CSA 3rd Congress, São Paulo, April 28th, 2016 More than 500 delegates representing unions in the Americas today adopted a ‘base document’ that included a call for governments in the hemisphere to issue a moratorium on fracking. Via the TUED-initiated Unions Against Fracking, five trade…
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Bangladesh Police Open Fire on Protest Against Coal Power Plants
By Michael O’Neil, for Trade Unions for Energy Democracy In the Chittagong district of Bangladesh, thousands of villagers held what they described as a peaceful protest over multiple days at the construction site of twin coal-fired power plants. The plants, costing $2.4 billion, are backed by Chinese companies and the project had just commenced leveling farmland to prepare for…
