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If Local 26 is forced to strike again, one thing is clear: It will do so not only as the representative of its own members, but as the champion of everyone who knows they are threatened by climate change
Jeremy Brecher
Jeremy Brecher is a historian, author, and co-founder of the Labor Network for Sustainability. He has been active in peace, labor, environmental, and other social movements for more than half a century. Brecher is the author of more than a dozen books on labor and social movements, including Strike! and Global Village or Global Pillage and the winner of five regional Emmy awards for his documentary movie work.
There have been more than a dozen strikes in the past two weeks by workers striking to protect themselves against infection by the coronavirus. They have already won increased protection. What do they portend for the future?
On Thursday February 27 thousands of Minneapolis cleaning workers walked off their jobs and struck their downtown commercial high-rises. Among their key demands was that their employers take action on climate change
The New Deal was part of a process of social change that included experimentation at a state, regional, and local level
Building Block for the Green New Deal
This program meets the needs of—and has the potential to unite—the labor movement, environmentalists, and all those who have been the victims of inequality, discrimination, racism and, now, climate change
Building Block for the Green New Deal
What’s the Constitution got to do with climate? Current legal cases are now addressing that question
A “non-party opposition” is a convergence of social movements that performs some of the classical functions of an opposition party without the goal of taking state power
Transit equity isn’t just about where you sit on the bus. It’s about whether you can get on a bus at all