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How Climate Protection Has Become Today’s Labor Solidarity

How Climate Protection Has Become Today’s Labor Solidarity

Under banners proclaiming “Healthy Planet & Good Jobs,” thousands of trade unionists from 75 local and national unions, highly visible in their red, blue, green, and white union uniforms, joined the People’s Climate March in New York City last September—a quantum leap from labor’s previous participation in climate actions.

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