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Who We Are
Labor Rise Climate Jobs Action Group is a grassroots organization of rank-and-file union members working to amplify labor’s voice in the climate struggle. The fight for climate jobs is a key strategy for building power to bring about a Just Transition for workers, communities, and the world. We are affiliated with Labor Rise for Climate, Jobs, Justice, and Peace, a coalition of union activists that grew out of 2018’s 35,000-person Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice march in San Francisco.
Refinery Transition Gets Real: Labor & EJ Groups Join Forces
A historic collaboration between labor and environmental justice groups was the focus of a lively workshop Labor Rise for Climate Jobs presented at the Labor Notes 2025 Troublemakers School held this June in Oakland, California.
Union & Immigrant Rights Group Join Forces to Fight Outrageous Deportation
Steve Morse of the Veterans and Labor for Sensible Priorities campaign and Labor Rise Climate Jobs Action Group reports on Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART) showing up in Maryland for union brother sent to notorious El Salvador prison by “administrative error.”
Book Review: ‘Power Lines—Building a Labor-Climate Justice Movement’
This anthology gathers “spark stories from the front lines of the climate crises that can help organizers figure out how to bring workers and communities together to build ‘the movement and power we need to win a just transition’ that will benefit us all.
War, Climate and U.S. Labor
Steve Morse of the Veterans and Labor for Sensible Priorities campaign and Labor Rise Climate Jobs Action Group reports on the emerging solidarity of antiwar, climate, and labor groups calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Labor Rise Joins US Labor Movement Call for Ceasefire in Israel and Palestine
Labor Rise Climate Jobs Action Group has signed on to a US Labor ceasefire call initiated by the United Electrical Workers (UE) and United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 3000, the largest union local in Washington State. Scores of unions and thousands of individual workers have signed on. Unions and individuals can add their…
Unions Rally for Ceasefire in Gaza as Climate Crisis Lurks
Labor Unions across the country are calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, one of the most climate-challenged places on Earth.