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Green Union News #3
Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, December 2, 2014
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:
- To deal with the climate crisis, everything must change - By Josiah Mortimer, Green European Journal, November 28, 2014; [Excerpt] "The European Trade Union Institute recent conference on ‘The Socio-Ecological Transition: A New Climate for the EU’s Sustainability Transition’ laid bare the need for radical change to deal with the climate crisis. And if battling climate change requires making our societies less superficial, less focused on expansion and instead more focused on equality, then that’s something we can all fight for."
- Social innovation and equality: keys to social-ecological transition - By Eloi Laurent, European Trade Union Institute, November 24, 2014
Other News of Interest:
- Ambre Energy Bungles News of Its Own Demise - By Clark Williams-Derry, Sightline Daily, November 26, 2014
- Big Oil’s Front Groups Exposed - By Andy Rowell, Oil Change International, November 26, 2014
- Climate Change and the End of California’s Big Agriculture - By Joshua Frank, Counterpunch, November 26, 2014
- Organizing workers in the new industrial zones of India [MP3] - By Piergiorgio Moro, Rabble.Ca, November 28, 2014
- Privateers Make a Water Grab - By Ellen Dannin, Portside, November 24, 2014
- Teamsters sell out strike by port truck drivers in Southern California - By Marc Wells, WSWS, November 24, 2014
- Walmart’s Reliance On Dirty Energy Responsible For 8 Million Metric Tons of Carbon Pollution Per Year - By Mike Gaworecki, DeSmog Blog, November 28, 2014
- The War on Unions - By Gregory N. Heires, The New Crossroads, November 29, 2014
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