Chicago teachers have won contract language around climate and environmental justice, and the Labor Network for Sustainability is partnering with the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) to amplify these victories. Their victory is not only a huge win for Chicago teachers, students, and families, but it also shows how labor leads on climate action and helps build community power. LNS has been putting a lot of effort into supporting the power of public sector workers who provide our critical public services. We feel that this moment of continual Trump shocks, public health shocks, Wall economic shocks, and climate shocks is especially dangerous for public institutions. If we allow the public sector to erode, then we won’t be able to handle the climate crisis or much else. A core group of CTU members, and a leadership who listens to their members, have made climate justice as important a priority as their other critical priorities. They’ve done an exemplary job of making the connections between healthy working conditions and environmental health, and have built powerful bridges with their neighbors in frontline community organizations. CTU is also a great model of how to organize and educate on these issues within labor. Thank you for signing up to CTU and Labor Network for Sustainability's webinar. If you're union or organization wants to join in lifting up the CTU victories in the press and on social media, leading up to the webinar event right before Earth Day, please use this form to be a co-sponsor in this effort: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1yH5pMqO6_oJt72aSh3f7NVP_XlLMPtrxU3WSE_h5AcA/edit We look forward to seeing you on the webinar on Monday, April 21, 2025!

The actor, writer and economics guru Stein famously lectured about the dangers of tariffs in the 1986 movie.

Among the remaining questions were how the EPA’s environmental justice programs, which bring federal resources to areas heavier hit by pollution, would be impacted by the order. Federal employees on t...