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

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

Union workers support Green New Deal policies because they know there doesn’t have to be a tradeoff between climate action and good jobs

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