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EcoUnionist News #26
Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, February 1, 2015
Disclaimer: The views expressed here are not the official position of the IWW (or even the IWW’s EUC) and do not necessarily represent the views of anyone but the author’s.
The following news items feature issues, discussions, campaigns, or information potentially relevant to green unionists:
Lead Stories:
- Register now for the Future of Railroads: Safety, Workers, Community & the Environment Conferences: Richmond, California (March 14, 2015) and Olympia, Washington (March 22, 2015) - railroadconference.org
- How Scrappy Community and Labor Activists Took on a California Oil Giant—and Won - By Jane Slaughter, In These Times, January 26, 2015
- Shut It Down Now! Former Nuclear Plant Technician Bob Rowen on Nuclear Power - By Steve Zelter, TruthOut, January 30, 2015
- Union rejects second refinery workers contract proposal - By Erwin Seba, Reuters, January 27, 2015
Crude by Rail:
- California Cities and Citizens Speak Out Against Oil Trains - By Ethan Buckner, Forest Ethics, January 26, 2015
- The Dangers of Hauling Crude Oil by Rail - By John Kristensen, Railroaded, January 25, 2015
- Oil Train Spills Hit Record Level in 2014 - By Tony Dokoupil, NBC Nightly News, January 26, 2015
- Why New "Improved" Oil Trains Are Not Nearly Good Enough: a closer look at the many flaws of CPC-1232 tank cars - By Eric de Place, Sightline Daily, January 28, 2015
Carbon Bubble:
- Big Oil needs a Plan B. It hasn’t got one - By Giles Parkinson, ReNew Economy, January 29, 2015
- BP cuts jobs in Houston as it trims Gulf of Mexico business - By Collin Eaton, FuelFix, January 28, 2015
- BP will freeze pay for most of its employees - By Robert Grattan, FuelFix, January 26, 2015
- ConocoPhillips tells employees to expect layoffs - By Robert Grattan, FuelFix, January 29, 2015
- Drilling contractor may cut 2,000 field jobs as rigs idle - By Collin Eaton, FuelFix, January 30, 2015
- The False Promise of Local Fracking Jobs - By Susan Christopherson, The Conversation, January 27, 2015
- Glencore mulls shutting down South African coal mines, lay offs - By Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.Com, January 28, 2015
Green Jobs and Just Transition:
- Just Transitions Speaking Tour with Bob Massie - Yes 2 Renewables [FOE], January 30, 2015
- Parents, Teachers and Students Ask School Districts to Go 100% Renewable Energy - By Stefanie Spear, EcoWatch, January 27, 2015
- SMA Solar to cut 1,600 jobs as European demand slides - By Christoph Steitz and Maria Sheahan, Reuters, January 27, 2015
Other News of Interest:
- 400 parts per million and class struggle - By Victor Wallis, Climate and Capitalism, January 25, 2015
- ALEC Forces the Question: Will Labor Really Go Local? - By Simon Davis-Cohen, Truthout, January 25, 2015
- Bangladesh Garment Workers Win Bargaining Pacts at 5 Factories - By Jennifer Kuhlman, AFL-CIO Solidarity Center, January 27, 2015
- Bribery Is a Bargain for Big Oil - By Steve Kretzmann, Oil Change International, January 22, 2015
- Former DNR employees say regulator stifles public information - By Jacob Barker, St Louis Post Dispatch, January 26, 2015
- The Heat Is On: Via Campesina and Allies Challenge Climate Capitalism - La Via Campesina, January 27, 2015
- The Precariat and the Basic Income: Part 1 - By Andrew Curry, The Next Wave, January 26, 2015
- The Precariat and the Basic Income: Part 2 - By Andrew Curry, The Next Wave, January 27, 2015
- 'Tiny houses' no solution to the unaffordability crisis - By Mike Stewart, Rabble.Ca, January 28, 2015
- Uber Accused of Lax Safety Practices by Delhi Woman - By Mike Isaac, New York Times, January 29, 2015
- Union workers press their case for contract demands at Lyondell refinery - By LM Sixell, FuelFix, January 28, 2015
- Up to 6,000 carcinogens, mutagens and reprotoxins floating around EU - European Trade Union Institute, January 30, 2015
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