Workers 4 Climate

04/17/2020

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!

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!

11/26/2019

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.

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 . . .

11/12/2019

“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.”

Union workers support Green New Deal policies because they know there doesn’t have to be a tradeoff between climate action and good jobs

11/12/2019

"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.

Working In These Times is dedicated to providing independent and incisive coverage of the labor movement and struggles for workers' rights.

11/05/2019

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.

10/26/2019

"...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..."

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...

10/20/2019

“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.”

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…