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EcoUnionist News #66
Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, September 15, 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:
- Greenhouse gas emission promises don’t even come close - By Ian Angus, Climate and Capitalism, September 8, 2015
- The Six-State Steelworker Fight Back Against Corporate Lockouts and Exploitation - By Leo Gerard, In These Times, September 8, 2015
- Labor Day 2015: Uniting labor, climate, and racial justice movements our best hope for better future - By Aaron Mair, Estela Vazquez, and Lenore Friedlaender, Sierra Club, September 5, 2015
- Washington state sues feds over worker safety at Hanford - By John Stang, Crosscut, September 3, 2015
Ongoing Mobilizations:
- Flood the System - Fall 2015: Flood, blockade, occupy and shut down the systems that jeopardize our future! | #FloodTheSystem
- Northern California Climate Mobilization - November 21, 2015
- People's Climate Movement - October 14, 2015
- People’s Climate Strike - November 26 - December 12, 2015
- Railcon15 - Chicago, Illinois Saturday, September 19, 2015 | #Railcon15
- Trade Union Climate Summit - September 14 & 15, 2015 Paris | #unions4climate
- 21st Century EcoSocialism Conference - October 9-11, 2015, University of California Santa Barnara
Bread and Roses:
- European Milk Plan: A single drop of water to put out a huge fire - By José Miguel Pacheco, et. al., La Via Campesina, September 14, 2015
- Labor Day Solidarity Action at Sakuma Processing Plant - By staff, Boycott Sakuma Berries, September 11, 2015
- This ex-Black Panther started an urban farm to create jobs for ex-inmates - By Katie Herzog, Grist, September 9, 2015
- The grape strike that transformed a nation, 50 years later - By Stephen Magagnini, Sacramento Bee, September 6, 2015
- Protesters occupy Colombia’s agriculture ministry amid agrarian protests - By Grace Brown, Colombia Reports, September 2, 2015
An Injury to One is an Injury to All:
- Air District set to release refinery emissions rules: Demand pollution caps now! - By Ratha Lai, The Yodeler, September 10, 2015
- Rail Giant BNSF Accused of Telling Arbitrator: ‘Our Way or The Highway’ - By Rick Schmitt, Fair Warning, September 10, 2015
- AC Transit Buses Lack Air Conditioning, Drivers And Commuters Complain of Unbearable Heat - By Sam Levin, East Bay Express, September 9, 2015
- Chinese oil company attacks workers in Kyrgyzstan - By staff, IndustiALL Union, September 9, 2015
- Chemical Safety Board Gets New Chief - By Jess Johnson, Chemical & Engineering News, September 7, 2015
- Half a Million California Students Attend School In Oil Train Blast Evacuation Zones - By Justin Mikulka, DeSmog Blog, September 7, 2015
- Fired regulator: Governor pushed to waive oil safeguards - By Ellen Knickmeyer, Associated Press, September 4, 2015
- City of LA Votes to Protect Communities from Exploding Bomb Trains - By Diane Middleton, Portside, September 3, 2015
- Blankenship jurors asked about unions, coal mine safety - By Ken Ward Jr, Charleston Gazette-Mail, September 2, 2015
- MSHA proposes to expand ‘proximity detection’ mandate - By Ken Ward Jr, Charleston Gazette-Mail, September 1, 2015
- Switzerland: around one million people suffer (from) accidents and illnesses due to their work - Press Release, European Trade Union Institute, August 31, 2015
Carbon Bubble:
- Canfor announces permanent closure of Canal Flats sawmill - By Business Vancouver, CCF Group, September 11, 2015
- Marathon Oil trims jobs, $150 million from exploration spending - By Collin Eaton, FuelFix, September 10, 2015
- MCC reassures workers we are here for you in these tough times - By staff, Papua New Guinea Mine Watch, September 9, 2015
- Rural poor aren’t going to wait for centralised clean coal - By Anthony Hobley, Business Green, September 9, 2015
- 65,000 Jobs Lost in North Sea - By Andy Rowell, Oil Change International, September 9, 2015
- Energy job cuts approaching 200,000 worldwide - By Collin Eaton, FuelFix, September 8, 2015
- Oil firms cutting another 700 Texas jobs - By Collin Eaton, FuelFix, September 8, 2015
Just Transition:
- Everything Is Changing: Trade Union Approaches to the Climate Crisis in Turbulent Times - Press Release, Trade Unions for Energy Democracy, September 11, 2015
- Smarter Cities Will Help Fight Climate Change - By staff, Blue Green Alliance, September 8, 2015
- Lock the Gate to expose misleading jobs claims at Warkworth public hearing - By staff, Lock the Gate Alliance, September 7, 2015
- SB 350 Myths and Facts - InfoGraphic, California Climate Leadership, September 7, 2015
- Labor Day 2050: How Unchecked Global Warming Threatens Labor Productivity - By Joe Romm, Think Progress, September 6, 2015
- Dispatches From the Edge of Change: Why Montana’s Fossil-Fuel Resistance Gives Me Hope - By Sarah van Gelder, Yes! Magazine, September 4, 2015
- Big Coal's war on its workers - By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest, August 27, 2015
- Our Resistance, Our Hope: Unity Statement of the International People’s Conference on Mining - By Acción Ecológica, et. al, Yes to Life No to Mining, August 1, 2015
Other News:
- Personal greed behind dirty proposal to bring coal through Bay Area for export out of Oakland - By Jess Dervin-Ackerman, The Yodeler, September 14, 2015
- California governor signs two-person train crew bill into law - By staff, Sheet Metal Air Rail Transportation Union, September 10, 2015; [related] California enacts two-person crew legislation - By staff, Progressive Railroading, September 11, 2015
- Controversial tech shuttles on road to becoming part of The City’s transit ecosystem - By Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez, San Francisco Examiner, September 9, 2015
- Naomi Klein: ‘Toxic Ideology of Market Fundamentalism’ Is to Blame for the ‘Degradation of the Planetary System’ - By Cole Mellino, EcoWatch, September 8, 2015
- Ecuador: Behind the 'Indigenous Uprising' against Correa; divided left weakens struggle for change - By Federico Fuentes, Green Left Weekly, September 6, 2015
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