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EcoUnionist News #73
Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, October 27, 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:
- Life and Death on the Line as Rich Nations Evade Climate Obligations - By Nadia Prupis, Common Dreams, October 22, 2015
- For Big Railroads, a Carload of Whistleblower Complaints - By Stuart Silverstein and Brian Joseph, Fair Warning, October 21, 2015
- Death by Fracking - By Chris Hedges, Truth Dig, October 18, 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 Strike - November 26 - December 12, 2015
- Railcon15 - Next Conference TBA | #Railcon15
Bread and Roses:
- Mexican Farmers Accuse Mining Companies of Shady Tactics in Chiapas - By Renata Bessi and Santiago Navarro F, TruthOut, October 20, 2015
- Women fight to reclaim and use traditional seeds - By staff, La Via Campesina, October 20, 2015
- Polish 'farm defenders' arrested, imprisoned - By staff, The Ecologist, October 13, 2015
- Monsanto to Cut 2,600 Jobs as World Rejects its Products and Practices - By staff, Anti-Media, October 9, 2015
An Injury to One is an Injury to All:
- Vestas investigates fatality at plant - By David Weston, Wind Power Monthly, October 26, 2015
- Deadline for train safety technology undercut by industry lobbying - By Ashley Halsey III and Michael Laris, Washington Post, October 25, 2015
- ExxonMobil Targets Journalists and Activists After Climate Change Investigation - By Melissa Cronin, Vice, October 24, 2015
- Apple's Supply-Chain Workers May Be Risking Cancer to Build Your iPhone - By Nicki Lisa Cole, TruthOut, October 23, 2015
- Retired Templeton fire chief: Do not understate risk of oil trains - By Greg O’Sullivan, San Luis Obispo Tribune, October 23, 2015
- Rana Plaza: safety undermined by lack of workplace democracy - By staff, European Trade Union Institute, October 21, 2015
- Feds probing death of worker on Gulf drillship - By Jennifer A. Dlouhy, FuelFix, October 20, 2015
- Fukushima worker diagnosed with "acute" leukaemia due to radiation exposure - By Justin McKeating, Greenpeace, October 20, 2015; [related] Recovery Worker Is First To Be Diagnosed With Cancer From Fukushima Meltdowns - By Sam P. K. Collins, Think Progress, October 20, 2015; [related] Japan admits first possible case of cancer linked to Fukushima - By Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.Com, October 20, 2015
- Indefinite Leave at Chemical Safety Board Prompts Complaint - By Kirsten Stade, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, October 20, 2015
- The People vs. the Koch-Funded Asbestos Industry - By Alex Formuzis, EcoWatch, October 20, 2015
- Occupational cancer: an expert reminds the EU of its responsibilities - By J Takala, European Trade Union Institute, October 15, 2015
Carbon Bubble:
- Maersk cutting up to 12 percent of oil jobs - By Bloomberg, FuelFix, October 26, 2015
- Vantage Drilling Co. lays off 135 workers in the Gulf of Mexico - By Rhiannon Meyers, FuelFix, October 26, 2015
- A Global Chill in Commodity Demand Hits America’s Heartland - By Nelson D Schwartz and Julie Creswell, New York Times, October 23, 2015
- Are the fracking vampires going bust? That's how it looks - By Joshua Frank, CounterPunch, October 23, 2015
- 56 people left on site as Myra Falls mine lays off nearly 100 workers: Vancouver Island - By Business in Vancouver, Mining.Com, October 23, 2015
- Bakken Reality Check - By J David Hughes, Resilience, October 21, 2015
- CSX To Close Mechanical Shops In Corbin, Kentucky - CSX Press Release, KFDA News Channel 10, October 21, 2015 [Note: as one would expect, this press release presumes that the capitalist "market" is innocent of any cause in this effect]
- Weatherford plans to cut 3,000 more jobs by the end of 2015 - By Rhiannon Meyers, FuelFix, October 21, 2015
- Nobody knows exactly how many oil jobs have been lost in Houston - By Rhiannon Meyers, FuelFix, October 19, 2015
- Two Aussie mines start moving all their iron ore with driverless trucks - By Andrew Topf, Mining.Com, October 18, 2015
Just Transition:
- Electrical workers union is first intervenor to back NextEra-HECO merger - By Robert Walton, Utility Dive, October 22, 2015
- Jobs - By Roy L Hales, The Eco Report, October 21, 2015
- Sweden Experiments With A 6-Hour Work Day - By David Morris, Institute for Local Self Reliance, October 21, 2015
- Meaningful Work - By Brian Miller, The South Roane Agrarian, October 18, 2015
- Paris climate summit: Not saving the world - By Alex Scrivener, Red Pepper, October 2015
Other News:
- With Traditional Unions on the Decline, Can Members-Only Unions Breathe Life Back Into Labor? - By Moshe Marvit and Leigh Anne Schriever, In These Times, October 21, 2015
- Interview: Oakland torn between coal cash and good health - By Ben Trefny, KALW 91.7 FM, October 20, 2015
- Amazon's Female Defenders Denounce 'Macho' Repression and Demand Rights - By Deirdre Fulton, Common Dreams, October 19, 2015
For more green news, please visit our news feeds section on ecology.iww.org; Twitter #IWWEUC; Hashtags: #greenunionism #greensyndicalism #IWW
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