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How Labor and Climate United Can Trump Trump
Brecher, Jeremy
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/02/13/how-labor-and-climate-united-can-trump-trump/Date Written: 2017-02-13 Publisher: CounterPunch Year Published: 2017 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX20374 Co-operation between labour and climate groups may be possible in the Trump era. Abstract: - Excerpt: The Trump ascendancy creates a new context for addressing long-standing tensions between organized labor and the environmental movement, between workers' job concerns and everyone's need to protect the climate. Trump and his congressional Republican allies intend to exploit these tensions to the max. But their threat to workers, the earth's climate, and society as a whole make cooperation against them imperative for both organized labor and the climate protection movement. Forging a force that can effectively counter Trumpism requires change that will involve tension within each movement as well as between them, but that may be necessary if either is to have a future. The alternative is most likely decimation of both movements and of everything they are fighting for. Subject Headings |