EcoUnionist News #56

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, July 14, 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:

• Fire at Chevron refinery in California led to infighting at U.S. Chemical Safety Board - By Jaxson Van Derbeken, San Francisco Chronicle, July 8, 2015
• Consumer advocates: Oil refiners manipulate California gas prices - By Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles Times, July 6, 2015
• The campaign to weaken worker protections; Who's to blame for thousands of work-related deaths and illnesses each year? Business, Congress, the White House and federal agencies - By Jamie Smith Hopkins, Center for Public Integrity, June 29, 2015

Bread and Roses:

• African governments sell out their farmers in secret seeds protection deal - By the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, The Ecologist, July 10, 2015
• International and National Delegations Coming to Sakuma fields in Support of Familias Unidas por la Justicia - Press Release, Boycott Sakuma Berries, July 10, 2015
• Farmworker Union Leads Unfair Labor Practice Work Stoppages at Sakuma Farms over Inhumane Production Standards; Demands Recognition and Negotiations of Union Contract - Press Release, Boycott Sakuma Berries, July 8, 2015
• Farmworkers at Sakuma Berry Farms Demand Negotiations with Management - Press Release, Boycott Sakuma Berries, July 6, 2015
• How Migrant Farmworkers Are Cross-Pollinating Strategies and Winning - By Sonia Singh, Labor Notes, July 6, 2015
• Steve Elmendorf: Monsanto's New Man on the Hill - By Gail Sullivan, Huffington Post, July 6, 2015

An Injury to One is an Injury to All:

• Review: A Practical Guide to Tackling Factory Hazards - By Kim Scipes, Labor Notes, July 9, 2015
• Still No Safety Rules Two Years After Executive Order - By Taylor Smith-Hams, Greenpeace Blogs, July 8, 2015
• S. Africa campaigners jump all over Marikana killings report - By Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.Com, July 8, 2015
• Lawsuit seeks $55 million for coal ash cleanup workers - Associated Press, WRCB NBC, July 7, 2015
• Workers allege negligence by coal ash cleanup overseer - By Staff, WBIR NBC, July 7, 2015
• BP 'Got Off Cheaply' With $18.7 Billion Settlement; BP had already estimated economic damages resulting from the Deepwater Horizon disaster at some $43 billion - By Antonia Juhasz, RollingStone, July 3, 2015

Just Transition:

• July 4th– Why the people of Canada are greater than the tar sands - By Atiya Jaffar, 350, July 9, 2015
• Watch: Anastasia Harripaul at the March for Jobs, Justice and the Climate - By Rebel Sage, Rabble.Ca, July 9, 2015; [related]: Watch: Fred Hahn at the March for Jobs, Justice and the Climate - By Rebel Sage, Rabble.Ca, July 9, 2015
• You didn't read about it in The Globe and Mail - By Judy Rebick, Rabble.Ca, July 9, 2015
• What Canada's Climate coalition looks like; For a movement long accused of being mostly male-led and white, Sunday's Jobs, Justice And Climate march represented a massive shift - By Adria Vasil, Now, July 8, 2015
• We > Tar Sands: Media round-up of July 4 - By Aurore Fauret, 350.Org, July 7, 2015

Other News:

• Protesters March Against Oil Trains: Richmond Calls for an end to Fossil Fuels and Demand Clean Energy Now! - By Megan Zapanta, Jasmin Vargas, and Eddie Scher, The Ecologist, July 11, 2015
• Construction worker files harassment suit over noose in East Bay - By Kale Williams, San Francisco Chronicle, July 10, 2015
• It’s unanimous: 100 percent of BLET members vote to strike at NJ Transit - Press Release, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, July 8, 2015

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