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EcoUnionist News #39
Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, March 2, 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:
Today in Green/Labor History: Earth First! activist and IWW organizer Judi Bari (b.1949) died on this date from cancer. Bari and her comrade Darryl Cherney survived a terrorist bomb in Oakland, CA, in 1990. The police and FBI immediately blamed her for the bombing, claiming that she was the terrorist and that the bomb was intended for the logging companies. She was arrested and handcuffed to her hospital bed. Bari and Cherney were eventually exonerated and won a hefty settlement for the FBI’s role in violating their civil liberties.
Lead Stories:
- Register now for the Future of Railroads: Safety, Workers, Community & the Environment Conferences: Richmond, California (March 14, 2015) and Olympia, Washington (March 21, 2015) - railroadconference.org
- Bay Area Workers and Unions Finance the Fracking Boom; Bay Area workers and unions are increasingly joining the climate justice movement, but their pension funds have been quietly investing in the oil and natural gas boom - By Darwin BondGraham, East Bay Express, February 25, 2015
- 2015: Oil Industry Off to a Rough Start - By Elizabeth Douglass, InsideClimate News, February 27, 2015
USW Refinery Workers Strike News:
- BP Whiting Refinery suffers second major malfunction this week - By Joseph S. Pete, NWI.com, February 25, 2015
- Neighbors fearful after another flare-up over BP Whiting Refinery - By Joseph S. Pete, NWI.com, February 26, 2015
- Steelworkers, Shell to speak Wednesday - By LM Sixel, FuelFix, February 27, 2015
- Union official: 'Solidarity' is key for striking BP Refinery workers - By Karen Caffarini, Chicago Post Tribune, February 28, 2015
- United Steelworkers Oil Refinery Strike Spreads - By Julie Dermansky, DeSmog Blog, February 26, 2015
- US oil workers threaten to expand strike to California port - Bloomberg, The Business Times, February 26, 2015
- USW, International Guests Present ‘Award’ To Glencore - United Steelworkers, February 26, 2015
Carbon Bubble:
- Boomtown, USA: An Historical Look at Fracking - By Henry Wiencek, Not Even Past, February 18, 2015
- CGG to cut about 400 jobs after 2014 $1.2 billion net loss - Bloomberg, FuelFix, February 26, 2015
- Dresser-Rand to cut 8 percent of its workforce - By Collin Eaton, FuelFix, February 27, 2015
- Glencore slashes coal production, cuts jobs as downturn continues - By Glen Norris, The Courier Mail, February 27, 2015
Green Jobs and Just Transition:
- California communities seize control of their energy futures - By David Roberts, Grist, February 25, 2015
- Count on Coal! - By Nick Mullins, The Thoughtful Coal Miner, February 26, 2015
- Green Jobs: The Newest Challenge for Workers and Unions - By Greg Albo, The Socialist Project, February 22, 2015
- If Coal Companies Had to Show What They Pay Miners For - By Nick Mullins, The Thoughtful Coal Miner, March 1, 2015
Other News:
- After Anti-Union Violence Exposed, Bangladesh Garment Workers Win Victory Against Apparel Companies - By Jonathan Brozdowski, In These Times, February 26, 2015
- Aging Track Caused Canadian National Railway Fiery Derailment - By John Kristensen, Railroaded, March 1, 2015
- Death By A Thousand Cuts: Earth Enters The ‘Danger Zone’ - By David Edwards and David Cromwell, Media Lens, March 2, 2015
- Fewer Labor Unions Means More Income Inequality - By Bryce Covert, Think Progress, February 27, 2015
- Klein vs. Klein - By Out of the Woods, The New Inquiry, January 7, 2015
- 10 Ways to Fight the Corporatocracy; Democracy will not be won without guts and solidarity - By Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet, February 17, 2015
- There is no Agroecology without Women - La Via Campesina, February 26, 2015
- The Warming World: Is Capitalism Destroying Our Planet? - By Alexander Jung, Horand Knaup, Samiha Shafy and Bernhard Zand, Der Speigel, February 25, 2015
For more green news, please visit our news feeds section on ecology.iww.org; Twitter #IWWEUC
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