The just transition debate centers on how to move away from fossil fuels towards renewable energy systems while safeguarding working conditions, livelihoods, and economic and social rights of workers ...
The national unemployment rate fell to 4.2 percent in August 2024 and job growth is predicted to have increased, putting off fears of a recession. Fears were stoked in July by a nearly three-year high ...
2023 was marked by symbiosis between the labor and climate movements. Workers across industries and geographies loudly declared that a world in which their safety and well-being are disregarded is ...
This past May, Colorado’s Democratic governor Jared Polis signed a series of new environmental bills into law, with the enthusiastic backing of the state’s labor movement. Legislation ranged from ...
The U.S. Court of Federal Claims has ruled in favor of contractors that challenged former President Joe Biden’s policy requiring project labor agreements on all federal construction projects of $35 ...
The Labor party’s energy policy platform, released last week, is politically clever and would likely be effective. It includes plans to underwrite renewable energy and storage, and other elements that ...
Some things are changing, in ways that green syndicalists have predicted. These changes reflect nothing less than the fact that ecological crises, especially climate emergencies, have become bread and ...
Climate Jobs Rhode Island, The Worker Institute at Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations and other organizations have collaborated to address how the state's climate goals and the labor ...
A joint labor-management-government delegation representing the Economic, Social and Labor Commission, labor unions, business ...