fracking
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Standing Rock-Solid with the Frackers
This post was originally featured at New Labor Forum. By Sean Sweeney If anyone were looking for further evidence that the AFL-CIO remains unprepared to accept the science of climate change, and unwilling to join with the effort being made by all of the major labor federations of the world to address the crisis, the…
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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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Two Major Unions Join Call for Global Moratorium on Fracking
The International Union of Food Workers and the Tunisian national center, the Union Générale Tunisienne du Travail (UGTT), have joined the Trade Union Call for A Global Moratorium on Fracking. The statement sends a strong message calling for “a global moratorium on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for shale gas, coal seam gas, and shale oil,” stating that…
