Workers 4 Climate

Lifestyle Markets staff are hard at work during COVID-19. They are calling for $3 per hour hazard pay and 6 days of paid sick leave.
On Monday 41 staff submitted a letter to store management with these demands. They did not receive a response and are now calling on the public to support them. Grocery workers are risking their health to provide the community with an essential service: let’s back them up!

Support Lifestyle Markets staff! - Retail Action Network On Monday 41 staff submitted a letter to store management with these demands. They did not receive a response and are now calling on the public to support them. Grocery workers are risking their health to provide the community with an essential service: let’s back them up!

Stop LNG! Our future is not for sale!
Black Friday - 12 noon - Centennial Square
DEMAND AN END TO FRACKING AND LNG
CALL FOR A GREEN NEW DEAL
This event is held on unceded Lekwungen territories.

Young climate activists to stage rally, march in Victoria Friday Victoria’s young climate strikers will be calling for reduced fossil fuel emissions and the implementation of climate-change solutions as part of a climate-strike rally to be held Friday.The . . .

“Far from being opponents of climate action, rank-and-file union members understand that climate change is a real threat, that addressing it can create jobs and strengthen unions, and that the government has a responsibility to protect climate, communities and workers.”

Reject the 'jobs versus environment' narrative – we can have both | Mijin Cha and Jeremy Brecher Union workers support Green New Deal policies because they know there doesn’t have to be a tradeoff between climate action and good jobs

"If you belong to a union, you can start organizing support for Climate Strikes and a Green New Deal by introducing a local union resolution in support of each." - Agree, but not sure how to do this? In Victoria, BC contact [email protected] for support.

The Climate Strikers Walked Out of School. Next, Let’s Walk Off the Job. Working In These Times is dedicated to providing independent and incisive coverage of the labor movement and struggles for workers' rights.

Climate Justice Victoria is organizing locally to build the Climate Strike Movement, end fossil fuel extraction, and campaign for a Green New Deal. Please 'like' them at Climate Justice Victoria.

"...the strategy they came up with was to get local membership meetings to pass a strike mandate. This mandate would be “conditional”: it would take effect only if a critical mass—at least 10 locals representing 5,000 workers—were participating. That way the locals would not strike alone and be vulnerable to repression and marginalization..."

How Seven Thousand Quebec Workers Went on Strike against Climate Change With a crowd of 500,000, Montreal’s march for the climate was the largest in the world during the September 20-27 week of climate action. Yet it was also noteworthy for another reason. Despite provincial labor laws preventing unions from striking over political issues, 11 locals representing 7,500...

“It’s not a case of fossil-fuel industry workers versus the rest, or Alberta versus British Columbia. We are all in this together. The challenge now is how to move forward in a way that leaves no one behind.”

Opinion: Fossil-fuel workers ready to support energy transition Except for an isolated pocket of skeptics, there is now an almost universal acceptance that climate change is a global emergency that demands immediate and far-reaching action to defend our home an…