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New Labor Forum Highlights: October 22nd, 2018
The New Labor Forum has 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. As progressive organizing surges within and around the Democratic Party, activists looking toward “the left wing of the possible” increasingly turn…
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TUED International Conference on Just Transition
By John Treat for TUED On May 29, 2018, trade union representatives and close allies from more than a dozen countries met in New York City for TUED’s international conference, Towards a Just Transition: International Labor Perspectives on Energy, Climate and Economy. The conference brought together more than fifty participants, from both the global North and…
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TRADE UNIONS AND JUST TRANSITION: TUED WORKING PAPER #11
By Sean Sweeney and John Treat The concept of “Just Transition” has become increasingly in vogue in recent years in international political circles. While commonly ascribed to be “transformative” in potential, like any fashionable term it runs the risk of being emptied of content and coopted by arbiters of the status quo. So what really is…
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Preparing a Public Pathway to Renewable Energy: TUED Working Paper #10
Why a profit-based approach to renewable energy is failing to deliver the energy transition, and why we urgently need to pursue public alternatives. By Sean Sweeney and John Treat Why, in a world awash with “idle capital” and in desperate need for a just energy transition to a renewables-based system, are global investment levels in…
