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U.S. Labour Resolutions to fight climate change
By Elizabeth Perry - Work and Climate Change Report, October 11, 2016
The most recent e-bulletin from the Labor Network for Sustainability in the U.S. highlights the Labor Convergence Conference which they convened in January 2016. The Convergence website includes a draft version of Principles , with a strong statement on environmental justice. It concludes: “As workers and trade unionists we will either initiate change or be the victims of it. We hereby resolve to use our power to reshape the economic, political, and social system in the interests of all the world’s people who are threatened by climate change.” Also from the Convergence conference, a statement of Goals and Strategies , with one of the first year goals to “Create a Labor Resolution on Climate Justice”. Some Convergence members have passed resolutions within their own unions: see the American Postal Workers Union resolution, “Climate Change, Jobs and Justice” , passed August 21, 2016 and the International Association of Machinists Local 1746 Climate Change Resolution passed in September 2016.
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