Labor Network for Sustainability

Whether you're a worker who wants a green job; a trade unionist who wants your union to support climate protection; a community activist fighting for sustainable communities; or an environmentalist who believes environmental protection must be socially sustainable, the Labor Network for Sustainability wants you.

Here are recent posts on their site:

• Will workers be left behind in a green transition?
• Can green jobs be good jobs?
• We’re number one – in financial damage from climate change
• Green jobs in a global green New Deal
• Policy issues facing the green jobs alliance (cap and trade and beyond)

The founder of the network is Joe Uehlein, the former Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO's Industrial Union Department and former director of the AFL-CIO Center for Strategic Campaigns. Uehlein is a founder and board member of Ceres, a member of the National Advisory Board of the Union of Concerned Scientists and a senior advisor to the Blue Green Alliance. He says: "Climate protection is the leading edge for a new philosophy of sustainability that includes but goes beyond the environment to encompass social and economic sustainability as well.  The fight against global warming is really part of a broad shift in society's principles and vision - a shift from honoring greed to honoring what's good for the health of the planet and the people on it first and foremost."

The LNFS provides a community for those inside and outside the labor movement who are concerned about economic justice, ecology and equality to connect and communicate with each other.  That community can help labor become a force for advancing worker interests - while advancing the broader social good. Uehlein adds, "Our job is to provide information to help organized labor and rank and file workers align their own self interest with the need to green our economy."