Page 6 - Labor Network News Today

Despite Weeks of Union-Busting, Workers at Imperfect Foods Vote to Unionize Companies like Imperfect Foods hold great sustainability potential, but that must not come at the expense of workers. Truthout Drivers at Imperfect Foods, a climate-conscious grocery delivery service, have voted to unionize after weeks of being manipulated and intimidated by union-busting consultants hired by the company’s management. The official tally was delayed by a company objection to an April vote, which the Na...

Aaron Favila / AP WASHINGTON (PAI)—From coast to coast, demands for passage of the PRO Act, the most pro-worker labor law overhaul in 86 years, will take center stage at May Day marches, teach-ins, and events, preceded by other pro-PRO Act actions that began on April 26. The AFL-CIO reports more than 700 events are planned, and that count may be low, as individual unions check in with their own marches and meetings. And five big Bay Area labor councils joined together for a May Day march in S...

Aaron Favila / AP WASHINGTON (PAI)—From coast to coast, demands for passage of the PRO Act, the most pro-worker labor law overhaul in 86 years, will take center stage at May Day marches, teach-ins, and events, preceded by other pro-PRO Act actions that began on April 26. The AFL-CIO reports more than 700 events are planned, and that count may be low, as individual unions check in with their own marches and meetings. And five big Bay Area labor councils joined together for a May Day march in S...

Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin: Green New Deal Is Essential for Human Survival Sen. Ed Markey speaks during a news conference held to reintroduce the Green New Deal at the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on April 20, 2021, in Washington, D.C. Sarah Silbiger / Getty Images This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. Earth Day has been celebrated since 1970, an era which marks the beginning of the modern environmental ...

Wyden, Merkley, Democrat colleagues reintroduce ‘Green New Deal’ resolution WASHINGTON (KTVZ) -- Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., said Thursday they joined colleagues to reintroduce the Green New Deal Resolution, legislation that they said would address the existential challenge of climate change and create millions of good, high-wage jobs in the process. “Oregonians enduring longer wildfire seasons along with prolonged droughts know full well how the climate crisis is already ra...

Ever since the Biden Administration unveiled its sweeping, $2 trillion American Jobs Plan on March 31, his team’s narrative has been notable for what’s missing. A key goal of the plan is to address climate change, yet largely absent from the sales pitch are dire warnings about a warming planet. In their place are breathless visions of new American manufacturing, innovation, and clean-energy independence. In part the goal is to win vital labor support for the proposal. More broadly, the aim ...

In 1979, when U.S. Rep. Cori Bush was a young girl growing up in St. Louis, a groundbreaking study showed that children “who had high lead in their teeth, but who had never been identified as having any problems with lead, had lower IQ scores, poorer language function, and poorer attention.” It was around then that the hazardous effects of lead paint entered the public consciousness. By the late 1970s, lead in drinking water and paint were among the culprits leading to high lead levels in...

Published April 19, 2021 at 5:16 AM CDT File photo | Jason Rosenbaum St. Louis Public Radio U.S. Rep. Cori Bush is co-sponsoring the Green New Deal for Cities legislation that would authorize $1 trillion in funding toward environmental justice projects that align with the Green New Deal. In 1979, when U.S. Rep. Cori Bush was a young girl growing up in St. Louis, a groundbreaking study showed that children “who had high lead in their teeth, but who had never been identified as having...

Why Medicare for All Must Be Part of the Green New Deal 3 Workers evacuate from an explosion and fire at the Husky Energy oil refinery in Superior, Wisconsin on April 26, 2018. Several people were injured by the explosion and fire at the oil refinery, sending thick plumes of black smoke into the sky as authorities urged residents in the area to evacuate. Photo: Jules Ameel (Getty Images) In 1991, Larry Barragan got word that the oil refinery in Long Beach, California where he was working would...

The PRO Act is emerging as the left’s answer to a classic political tension. Stephanie Keith/Getty Images Representative Jamaal Bowman, a vocal supporter of the PRO Act Tuesday night, the Protecting the Right to Organize Act passed the House by 225–205 votes. If it passes the Senate and becomes law, it will peel back over half a century of anti-union policies, including core provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947. It would override state-level right-to-work protections—the darlings o...