Why Are Climate Activists Fighting for Labor Law Reform?
Join System Change Not Climate Change for an in-depth conversation with two leaders of DSA's Green New Deal and PRO Act Campaign. Learn why they are calling on ecosocialists and climate activists to fight alongside unionists to win major changes to the nation's labor laws.
We all know we need to see the end of fossil fuel exploitation, delivery, and use in the next few years. But we also need U.S. workers to thrive during the transition. Thus we need millions of clean energy and transportation jobs, and we need to ensure that people, not corporations and billionaires, profit in the new energy economy.
Sydney and Ashik will discuss how the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act strengthens the Green New Deal and empowers labor during the transition to an environmentally sensible economy.
The PRO Act streamlines union contract processes, bans replacing striking workers, prevents the misclassification of employees as independent contractors, legalizes secondary boycotts, and bans racist “right-to-work” laws currently in effect in more than half the states. The PRO Act has passed the House, but it faces adamant Republican opposition in the 50-50 Senate.
The time is now to change our political and climate landscape, but that won’t happen without a much stronger labor movement. Putting power back in the hands of the working-class majority ensures that those building our new sustainable society are also the ones shaping it.
Read “To Win a Green New Deal, Pass the PRO Act,” which Ashik and Sydney cowrote for Dissent magazine in March.
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