Unions Making a Green New Deal From Below–Part 2

By Jeremy Brecher, Labor Network for Sustainability

Workers and unions are among those who have the most to gain by climate protection that produces good jobs and greater equality.

Unions Making a Green New Deal from Below–Part 1

By Jeremy Brecher, Labor Network for Sustainability

While Washington struggles over job and climate programs, unions around the country are making their own climate-protecting, justice-promoting jobs programs.

Municipalist Syndicalism: From the Workplace to the Community

By Alexander Kolokotronis, ROAR Magazine

Municipalist syndicalism broadly means democratizing unions as a means to democratizing local and regional public power. This is done through advancing an anti-racist dual power agenda for the labor movement by building and acting with communities of color on issues beyond the job.

The Green New Deal— Be-labored?

By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion

The lesson here is straightforward. Building coalitions outside more narrow identity groups is essential to winning elections and later in the halls of legislatures and the offices of chief executives to enacting legislation. 

Imagining a World with No Bullsh*t Jobs

By David Graeber, Chris Brooks, ROAR Magazine

Bullshit jobs are ones where the person doing them secretly believes that if the job (or even sometimes the entire industry) were to disappear, it would make no difference — or perhaps, as in the case of say telemarketers, lobbyists, or many corporate law firms, the world would be a better place.

Unions have Been Down Before, History shows How They can Come Back

By George Lakey, Waging Nonviolence

Two ways we can honor unions at this time of trial are to ask others to join union picket lines and to learn from their innovations and successes for whatever campaigns we are committed to today.

Municipalist Syndicalism: Organizing the New Working Class

By Alexander Kolokotronis, ROAR Magazine

Incipient anti-fascist coalitions hold the potential to call a new politics into existence in the United States. Socialist municipalism could be a means for both resisting the far right as well as articulating a libertarian socialist alternative. While there is much to critique in Bookchin — even from a municipalist angle — the basic guiding principles hold.

How Labor and Climate United Can Trump Trump

By Jeremy Brecher, Common Dreams

Forging a force that can effectively counter Trumpism requires change that will involve tension within each movement as well as between them, but that may be necessary if either is to have a future.

Can the ‘New Economy’ and Labor Movements Come Together Again?

By Eric Dirnbach, Waging Nonviolence

As capitalism continues to undergo economic and environmental crises, more common projects between the new economy and labor movements may lead to a revival within mainstream labor of the old cooperative commonwealth concept.

What If Uber Were a Unionized, Worker-Owned Co-Op? These Denver Cabbies Are Making It Happen

By Mary Hansen, YES! magazine

What it boils down to is ensuring an equal emphasis on the “worker” and “owner” of being a worker-owner.

Green Bans, Red Unions: Review

By Camille Barbagallo, Red Pepper

Considering the depth of opposition and the potential for such movements to intervene into ongoing debates about fuel poverty and sustainable economic development, it is useful to pause and consider what and who might actually be able to stop fracking.