Climate Change
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Unions Backing Historic People’s Climate March
By Jeremy Brecher Delegates to Connecticut State Council of Machinists (CSCM) conference at the end of June voted unanimously to endorse and participate in the historic People’s Climate March set for Sunday, September 21, 2014 in Manhattan. This was just the most recent of a growing number of union endorsements for the March. New York…
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US Labor Combating Environmental Injustices: Organizing Locally and Globally
By Eduardo Rosario What is the history of the coalition between the labor movement and the environmental justice movement? To answer that question, I looked at labor’s activities on environmental issues in three time periods: 1948 to 1972, 1973 to the 1990s, and the 1990s to the present. The labor movement took the lead on…
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Precarious Solidarity – Labor and The Environmental Movement
This post was written by Penny Lewis, an Assistant Professor of Labor Studies at The Murphy Institute For the second time in two weeks the New York Times has devoted its lead news story to reports about our unfolding environmental cataclysm. Last week’s lead brought home the fact that climate change is happening now, covering reports…
