Articles / Climate/Justice
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Climate Bargaining on (and off) Campus
Employers will certainly argue that climate action doesn’t belong on the table. However, unions in recent years have made strides on what can be won through bargaining. Keep reading…
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Labour Confronts the Climate Crisis
A Conference for Action
Labour Confronts the Climate Crisis featured an incredible lineup of political thinkers, climate scientists, economists, and researchers — people we should all be listening to. Like Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, director of Indigenous Climate Action. Keep reading…
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Care Work is Climate Work
Long-Term Care and a Green New Deal
We must ensure that care workers are well paid and unionized, with good benefits and vastly improved working conditions. That in itself is a climate solution. Keep reading…
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From Pandemic to Prosperity
Retooling GM Oshawa
Now that the door has been cracked open to the idea of retooling, we need to kick it wide open to help save lives and to create thousands of good, unionized jobs. Keep reading…
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GREEN JOBS OSHAWA & A GREEN NEW DEAL
A Call to Nationalize GM Oshawa
The GM plant closure in Oshawa, Ontario, will throw 15,000 people out of work: 5,000 assembly-related jobs and 10,000 indirect jobs will be lost. Faced with this crisis, auto workers and allies have come up with a creative solution: nationalize the plant and re-tool it to make electric vehicles. Keep reading…
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How I Became a Climate Activist
When Climate Change Becomes Personal
For years, I considered myself a bad climate activist. Sure, I went to meetings, took classes, and learned about feedback loops, carbon budgets, and what the difference between 1.5 and two degrees Celsius would mean. Still, climate change wasn’t what got me out of bed in the morning. Now it is, and it’s all about the future of the people and places we love. Keep reading…
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Rock the Boat for Change
Forcing Climate Action
As long as you play by capital’s rules, you’re always going to lose. It’s a lesson that the climate movement learned long ago and one that trade unionists need to remember if we want to rebuild the labour movement — and secure a liveable future. Keep reading…
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An Idea to Change Our World
For the last decade, environmentalists and unions have been on the defensive. Now it’s time to launch an offensive to collectively determine our future. We have a roadmap to get there. Let’s use it. Keep reading…
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Putting Climate On The Bargaining Table
As a Crown corporation Canada Post belongs to us, the people, and we get a say in what it does. So what happens if we direct it to go 100 per cent renewable? It would be one of the largest actions the government could take against climate change. Keep reading…
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Water & Whole-Worker Organizing
As I write this, tens of thousands of activists are delivering jars of sea water from Vancouver’s Burrard Inlet to more than 60 MPs’ offices across the country to make the point that water is sacred and must be protected. Keep reading…
