Green Labor Journal - Working for a Substainable Future

You Load Sixteen Tons and What Do You Get?

By Lee Ballinger Excerpt from a coal miner's forthcoming book about jobs and the environment

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The National Labor College Launches Green Workplace Representative Certificate Program

By Tom Kriger Register now for the first course, scheduled for June 26 - July 1.  Scholarships available.

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Top Green Industries for Workers

By Ezra Drissman The Green Careers Guide highlights jobs opportunities in wind, green buildings, energy efficient cars, and mass transit

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Standing Strong Around Wisconsin

By Wisconsin State AFL-CIO Working families have been standing up against Gov. Scott Walker's extreme attacks on the middle class - with music video "We Can't Back Down."

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The Fed Has Spoken

By Ellen Brown No Bailout for Main Street: The FED provided a $12.3 trillion baillout for the banks, but offers no relief for state and local governments facing insolvency due to the same credit crisis that the banks created

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U.N. Climate Change Talks, Cancun, Mexico

By Bob Baugh Labor's "Just Transition" language sets forth an equitable pathway to a sustainable climate and economy

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Deficit Commission Proposals Would Cost Four Million Jobs

By Richard Trumka Trumka:  Simpson and Bowles "just told working Americans to Drop Dead"

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National Labor College Degree Programs

By Tom Kriger

Explore Online Degrees at NLC - which accepts up to 90 transfer credits towards a B.A. degree in Labor Studies

 

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America is One Nation!

By Richard Trumka Remarks at "One Nation Working Together" Rally

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Nuclear Power?

By Joe Uehlein 8 Questions Need to be Answered

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The Green Career Ladder

By Bob Oedy A step-by-step guide to profitable careers in sustainable energy

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A Just Transition to Good Green Jobs

By Bob Baugh Bob Baugh and Jeff Richert examine labor's struggle for good green jobs

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Trumka: Green Jobs OR Good Jobs a "False Choice"

By Mike Hall 2010 Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference

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Trumka Cites Massey Mine's "Failure" to Follow the Law

By Mike Hall President Obama to eulogize miners

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Building Green Cars Could Create 150,000 Jobs

By James Parks New UAW Report on clean cars, climate change and green jobs

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AFL-CIO Unveils 2010 State Jobs Agenda

By Mike Hall

State legislatures have important roles to play

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Labor's Notable Progress in Copenhagen

By Jeff Rickert AFL-CIO Now Blogs from Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, December 7-18, 2009, by Roger Toussaint, Bob Baugh, Barbara Byrd and Dick Iannuzzi

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Meet Troy Galloway from Ebensburg, PA

By Mike Kiernan United Steelworkers help Rust Belt go green

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