USA

Why Unions Must Bargain Over Climate Change

14/03/19

Author:

Nato Green

Link:

Teachers at The Accelerated Schools, a community of public charter schools in South Los Angeles picket outside the school on second day of the Los Angeles school teachers strike on January 15, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Al Seib / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

TUESDAY, MAR 12, 2019

Union contract negotiations include mandatory and permissive subjects of bargaining. Employers are required by law to negotiate over mandatory subjects—wages, benefits and working conditions. Permissive subjects, such as decisions about which public services will be provided and how, have historically been the purview of management. We only negotiate over how managerial decisions affect members’ jobs. Employers may voluntarily agree to negotiate permissive subjects, but unions can’t legally strike over them.

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Category:

Climate Change

Labour - Unions

USA

Oregon bill would protect drinking water, ban clear-cuts, chemicals on private forestland

14/03/19

Author:

Tracy Loew

Link:

Statesman Journal

Two Oregon lawmakers want to protect public drinking water sources by banning clear-cuts, pesticide and fertilizer applications, and new logging roads on private forestland in those watersheds.

The aim is to prevent disasters such as last year’s Detroit Lake algae bloom, which shut down drinking water supplies in the state Capital for more than a month.

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Forestry

Social

USA

Is “Green Growth” Malignant? Perspectives on the Green New Deal

13/03/19

Author:

Dan Young interviews Don Fitz and Stan Cox

Link:

WFHB

Interchange – Is “Green Growth” Malignant? Perspectives on the Green New Deal

March 12, 2019 Interchange, News, Public Affairs 44 Views

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Trudeau Doctrine

05/03/19

Author:

Yves Engler

Link:

The Bullet

Many Canadians are familiar with the Monroe Doctrine. First issued in 1823, it warned European powers against renewed colonization of the Western Hemisphere. Presented as anti-imperialist, the Monroe Doctrine was later used to justify U.S. interference in regional affairs.

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Canada

Ecosocialism

USA

Guiding principles for an Ecosocialist Green New Deal

02/03/19

Author:

Democratic Socialists of America

Link:

Climate and Capitalism

Break the power of capitalists and guarantee a vibrant natural world that is home for humanity and all forms of life, for many generations to come.

Statement of the Ecosocialist Working Group of the Democratic Socialists of America, February 28, 2019.

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Category:

Climate Change

Ecosocialism

USA

What can a Green New Deal look like for Canada? a video of a very recent webcast and a new podcast

01/03/19

Author:

350.org and The Leap

Link:

facebook.com

Editor: Both of these works are interesting discussions of extending some of the ideas of the Green New Deal to the Canadian context.

Watch "What can a Green New Deal look like for Canada?" here.

And here is the link to the podcast described below: https://theleap.org/change-everything/

February 12 2019:

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One, Two, … Many Green New Deals: An Ecosocialist Roundtable

26/02/19

Author:

Carol Dansereau, John Foran, Ted Franklin, Brad Hornick, Sandra Lindberg, Jennifer Scarlott,

Link:

Resilience.org

February 26, 2019

Introduction by John Foran

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Category:

The Green New Deal, Capitalism and the State

16/02/19

Author:

Rob Urie

Link:

Counterpunch

"This is an excellent article, explaining the central, crucial need for radical ecological-economic transition plans. But it also stresses why asking/expecting the corporations and their governments to devise/implement such plans may be a useful tactic but is definitely a doomed strategy."

Gene McGuckin

Feb. 15, 2019

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Category:

Capitalism

Climate Change

USA

The Battle Lines Have Been Drawn On The Green New Deal

14/02/19

Author:

Naomi Klein

Link:

The Intercept

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks alongside Sen. Ed Markey at a news conference about the Green New Deal, in Washington, Feb. 7, 2019. Photo: Pete Marovich/Redux

February 13 2019

“I REALLY DON’T like their policies of taking away your car, taking away your airplane flights, of ‘let’s hop a train to California,’ or ‘you’re not allowed to own cows anymore!'”

So bellowed President Donald Trump in El Paso, Texas, his first campaign-style salvo against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey’s Green New Deal resolution. There will surely be many more.

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Category:

Climate Change

USA