EcoUnionist News #68

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, September 29, 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:

• Right to Work Is Coming to the Public Sector. The Only Way to Survive: Social Movement Unionism - By Ari Paul, In These Times, September 21, 2015
• Creative self-destruction: the climate crisis and the myth of ‘green’ capitalism - By Christopher Wright and Daniel Nyberg, The Conversation, September 20, 2015
• Australia: United mass action can win climate fight - By Pip Hinman, Green Left Weekly, September 18, 2015
• Sustainable Development: Something New or More of the Same? - By Charles Eisenstein, Huffington Post, September 14, 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 - Next Conference TBA | #Railcon15
• 21st Century EcoSocialism Conference - October 9-11, 2015, University of California Santa Barnara 

Bread and Roses:

• You are destroying the Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources - By Mauro Conti and Émilie Lapprand, La Via Campesina, September 25, 2015
• The Long, Strange Tale of a California Farm’s Attempts To Break Its Workers’ Union - By David Bacon, In These Times, September 24, 2015
• Statement from MST National Direction on the aggression against Stedile - By Landless Workers Movement (MST), La Via Campesina, September 24, 2015
• Via Campesina promotes international declaration on the rights of peasants in United Nations Human Rights Council - By Ndiakhate Fall, et. al., La Via Campesina, September 24, 2015
• Teamsters, Coalition Tell Whole Foods: Black Lives Matter - By Galen Munroe, Food Dive, September 22, 2015
• The Radical Roots of the Great Grape Strike - By David Bacon, The Reality Check, September 20, 2015

An Injury to One is an Injury to All:

• Chevron sacks union organizers in Bangladesh - Press Release, IndustriALL, September 24, 2015
• Steelworkers Demand that Final Reports on 2014 Fatality be Released - By Marty Warren, Herb Daniher, and Sylvia Boyce, United Steel Workers, September 24, 2015
• Labor Department says Halliburton will pay $18.3 million in overtime to workers misclassified as exempt - By Joshua Cain, FuelFix, September 22, 2015
• Former worker accuses Recology of discrimination, retaliation - Staff Report, ABC7 News, September 21, 2015
• Women of Steel Activist Dies in Workplace Incident - Press Release, United Steel Workers, September 21, 2015
• Cliff’s Proposals Would Turn Back the Clock on Our Contract - Press Release, United Steel Workers, September 18, 2015
• Victoria's transport chief resigns as trams, police and beer strikes loom - Australian Associated Press, The Guardian, September 16, 2015
• RN Response Network Mobilizes Volunteer Nurses to Care for Butte Fire and Valley Fire Evacuees - Registered Nurse Response Network, National Nurses United, September 15, 2015; [related] Nearly 4,000 People Fighting California's Fires Are Paid Just $1 an Hour - By S.E. Smith, Bitch Media, September 15, 2015
• Samsung is to blame' for cancers - By Sandra Bartlett, The Center for Public Integrity, September 11, 2015

Carbon Bubble:

• Chinese Coal Mining Company Lays Off 100,000 Workers - By Joshua S Hill, Clean Technica, September 28, 2015
• Global job losses surpass 200,000, energy recruitment firm reports - By Rhiannon Meyers, FuelFix, September 25, 2015
• Caterpillar to axe 10,000 jobs over next three years - By Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.Com, September 24, 2015
• Caterpillar plans to cut thousands of jobs as key markets slow - By Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, September 24, 2015
• Caterpillar says it could cut 10,000 jobs to reduce costs - Associated Press, FuelFix, September 24, 2015
• Halliburton lays off North Dakota workers; how many not known - Associated Press, FuelFix, September 23, 2015
• Halliburton plans more layoffs, now targeting management - By Rhiannon Meyers, FuelFix, September 23, 2015
• European Coal Prices Slump to a Record Low - By Rachel Morison, Bloomberg, September 22, 2015
• What Caused Massachusetts’ Pension Fund To Lose Half A Billion Dollars Last Year? - By Samantha Page, Think Progress, September 22, 2015
• Mines in America's Coal Country Just Sold for a Total of Nothing - By Tim Loh and Mario Parker, Bloomberg, September 21, 2015
• $1.5 Trillion of Investment “At Risk” - By Andy Rowell, Oil Change International, September 21, 2015
• Queensland Mines: privatise profits, socialise losses - By Lisa Main and Dominique Schwartz, Workers' Bush Telegraph, September 21, 2015
• KGHM to shut down McCreedy mine: Union - By Ben Leeson, The Sudbury Star, September 20, 2015
• South African miners could lose HIV treatment in job cuts - By Katie McQue, This is Africa, September 17, 2015
• BP plans layoffs at Texas City, Texas, chemical plant - By Erwin Seba, Reuters, September 14, 2015

Just Transition:

• The Oil Industry’s California Playbook - By Nick Abraham, Sightline Daily, September 24, 2015
• In Construction Sector, Green is Growing - Staff Report, Blue Green Alliance, September 23, 2015
• New Greenpeace Report Outlines Pathway To 100% Renewable Energy By 2050 - By Joshua S. Hill, Clean Technica, September 22, 2015
• Now California Pension Funds Must Divest from Coal - By Susan Kraemer, Earth Techling, September 22, 2015

Other News:

• Ukraine: workers organise at the grass roots - By Pavel Lisyansky, People and Nature, September 28, 2015
• Two Climate Activists Explain Their Involvement In Deportation Protest - By Carissa Knipe, Sierra Klingele, Ed Mast, Hannah Madrone and Matthew Horwitz, Flood the System, September 22, 2015
• Ripple Effect: The People’s Climate March One Year Later - Staff Report, 350.org, September 21, 2015

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