LNS Videoconference: The Green New Deal – What Does It Mean for Labor?
In “Twelve Reasons Labor Should Demand a Green New Deal,” LNS’s Jeremy Brecher and Joe Uehlein argue that labor unions should take this opportunity to embrace the proposal—and fight to make sure it’s a strong vehicle for advancing workers’ rights.
The principles for a Green New Deal laid out by the youth Sunrise Movement call for a job guarantee program to assure a living wage job to every person who wants one. What is a “jobs guarantee program” and what does it have to do with protecting the climate?
Becky Glass joined the Labor Network for Sustainability in early 2010. She has been working on climate, energy and economic justice in one capacity or another for more than 35 years.
Immediately prior to joining LNS, she served for 12 years as the founding Executive Director of the Midwest States Center, which supported statewide civic engagement/economic justice coalitions in upper Midwest states. Prior to that she served as Midwest field director for The Youth Project, a national foundation that supported economic and social justice organizations and civic engagement groups. Before that she directed the Energy Project at the Washington DC-based Center for Policy Alternatives. And before that she ran energy conservation programs for the state of Illinois and before that in the Chicago metropolitan region. She currently serves on the boards of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and Every Voice (previously Public Campaign). Becky holds a Master of Urban and Regional Planning with an emphasis in transportation and energy from the University of Illinois.
She and her writer-publisher-farmer husband Jim Hare raise grass-fed beef on their small Wisconsin farm, 90 miles East of Minneapolis-St. Paul. Their daughter Amber, a graduate of Boston University, works in admissions with the School for Field Studies, which runs environmental field studies internships in Australia, Bhutan, Cambodia, Costa Rica, Panama, Peru, Tanzania, and the Turks & Caicos Islands.
Photo: Becky with Brendan Smith at an LNS event in 2017.
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