An interesting Labor Perspective authored by Marilyn Sneiderman and Stephen Lerner.  Sneiderman directs the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization and is a distinguished Professor at Rutgers’ School of Management and Labor Relations.  She led the National AFL-CIO’s Department of Field Mobilization, where she launched the national Union Cities initiative, which focused on increasing the capacity to support and win organizing, political and policy campaigns nationally through Community/Labor Alliances.  Lerner served on the Service Employees International Union’s International Executive Board and is the architect of the Justice for Janitors Campaign.  Lerner is currently a Senior Fellow at the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

Here's a bit of their Labor Perspective:

The peril is also undeniable.

The world is literally and figuratively on fire - and flooding at the same time.

The ice cap is melting, we face growing Fascist Movements, wealth and race inequality is exploding and the super-rich are flying to space, cruising the ocean in super-yachts and buying up mountain retreats to insulate themselves from the devastation their greed is inflicting on the world.

The rich and powerful are making plans to survive and prosper on a debased earth or another planet they colonize.

Before it is too late, we need to figure out how to save the planet and organize a movement that can win a multi-racial feminist democracy and redistribute wealth and power in a country that protects the environment, ends white supremacy and works for the many, not the super-rich few.

Time is running out.

To Read Their Labor Perspective, Go To: Making Hope and History Rhyme: A New Worker Movement from the Shell of the Old - New Labor Forum (cuny.edu)

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