HONG KONG The United Steelworkers union filed a legal case with the Obama administration on Thursday morning, accusing China of violating World Trade Organization rules by subsidizing exports of clean energy equipment to the United States. (The full text of this article is available free) [...]

A major U.S. union came out swinging against China on Thursday, saying in fiery terms that the Asian giant was using illegal trade tactics to strong-arm Americans out of clean-tech jobs. The United Steelworkers filed a 5,800-page petition with the U.S. trade representative alleging that China was gi [...]

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) is backing a petition filed to the Obama administration today by the United Steelworkers that accuses China of violating World Trade Organization rules by unfairly subsidizing exports of materials and equipment necessary to develop green energy technology. In a statement, [...]

Unite, of Great Britain and Ireland and the United Steelworkers Union (USW), United States and Canada, decided to join forces within Workers Uniting to be more active against multinationals and better face the multiple relocation threats. Jerry Fernandez, USW international relations director since 1 [...]

The U.S.-China green technology competition has just gotten explicit, thanks to the United Steelworkers union. On Thursday, the union submitted a 5,800-page case (pdf) accusing China of breaking World Trade Organization rules with its ?hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies, performance requir [...]

As the global economy hurtles toward Great Recession II, the earth hurtles toward climate catastrophe. Both represent the results of a neoliberal deregulation that has left humanity no means to shape our economies to serve human needs -- not even the need for economic and environmental survival. How [...]

Top Stories "How Water Footprinting is More Complex than Carbon"? reliability medium. Marc Gunther posts about a new report from The Coca-Cola Co. and the Nature Conservancy, "Product Water Footprint Assessments: Practical Application in Corporate Water Stewardship". He says: "Coca-Cola has recogniz [...]

Link to article: AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | Explosion at Honeywell Nuclear Plant Staffed by Strike Breakers From the article: This past weekend, just one day after the federal government allowed Honeywell to start up core production at its uranium enrichment facility in Metropolis, Ill., with replacement wo [...]

Photo via the WSJ The biggest story to break in the clean energy world in the last few days is certainly the allegation that China is breaking World Trade Organization rules by unfairly subsidizing its exports of renewable energy equipment and materials. An American union, the United Steelworkers, h [...]

By Ian Talley and Michael R. Crittenden Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--U.S. lawmakers could soon replace feisty rhetoric with action on China and its currency policy. Frustrated members of Congress may vote in the coming weeks on legislation penalizing Chinese imports for Beijing's a [...]