Teamsters Local 283 (IBT 283) declared success in contract negotiations with Marathon, after a year of struggle and 101 days on strike.
Category: Toxic Chemicals
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What We Did in 2024: Update for Our Supporters
A quick recap of our many accomplishments in 2024, with lots of inspiring photos, and 2025 plans to get excited about!
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Our movements held the line at the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations. Where do we go from here?
We leave the UNEP Plastics negotiations without a meaningful treaty to end the plastics pollution crisis. We do not leave defeated, as we have built a growing opposition to false corporate schemes.
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It’s Giving Season. JTA Needs Your Help!
Your generosity will add momentum to the continuing growth of our crucial trans-local and international organizing as well as our very popular trainings.
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Training and Tour in Modesto and The Bay
JTA attended a series of events that deepened relationships between labor and environmental justice groups and increased the capacity of the Environmental Justice Communities Against Plastics coalition.
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Waste Workers’ Initiatives in the Philippines
We returned to the US with a deeper understanding and commitment to our collaboration with those leading the most innovative pathways towards a future free of plastics pollution.
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Just Transition Allies: Environmental Justice Communities Against Plastics
Established in 2021, EJCAP tackles every aspect of the “death cycle” of plastic pollution, prioritizing frontline communities’ needs every step of the way.
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JTA and Allies at the Ottawa Global Plastics Treaty Talks (INC-4)
We learned about many ways communities and workers are impacted by the plastics-petrochemical industrial complex, as well as the spectrum of demands these frontline groups were bringing to the treaty talks.
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Petrochemical Industry Impunity Must Be Stopped
The rapidly growing plastics and petrochemical industries in the region between Houston and New Orleans worsen the “sacrifice zone” that already contains the highest concentration of petrochem plants in the country.
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2023 Review
A quick recap of our many accomplishments in 2023, with lots of inspiring photos, and 2024 plans to get excited about!