As EVs gain market share, workers with the new "green" jobs still face a tough fight to win a union and a safe and healthy workplace.
Solar plant installation can involve several union jurisdictions, including IBEW electrical workers, Ironworkers, Laborers, Millwrights and Operating Engineers, but only 10 percent of solar workers have a union. The Ironworkers and other trades are...
Neither the corporate media nor our politicians who are beholden to corporate lobbyists honestly address the common root causes of (and solutions to) worker exploitation and climate change.
Relying on the private sector to decarbonize is a recipe for abandoning workers.
After years of rapprochement, Germany’s climate and labor movements are jointly going on strike to demand socio-ecological public infrastructure.
Environmental and labor organizers reflect on strategies for collaboration
Climate and environmental justice activists have been joining striking refinery workers on the picket line.
In a real sense, under capitalism, all workers are precarious, meaning that they can be downsized, replaced, deskilled, outsourced, and so on. It’s simply a matter of degree. The latest peak in precarity is “gig work,” which has always existed; the...
Since the end of the feudal era the world order has been largely structured by the nation-state system. Individuals have been willing to kill and die for their countries. The pursuit of individual and collective interests has occurred largely within...
Two labor activists call on labor to step up and meet the challenges posed by climate change
