Labor Network for Sustainability

Helping workers & their allies advance a climate action program that is ecologically sustainable & economically just.

[Labor Network for Sustainability @LN4S]

LNS and our partners had a successful Transit Equity Week 2026 🥳 🚃 🚌 Watch this video to learn what this day means to us and how we celebrated! We are excited to continue growing our transit equity work and organizing riders and workers everywhere. #TransitEquityDay

[April Verrett @SEIUPres]

They said “unions couldn’t win in the South.”
Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga said, watch this.

A first-ever union contract.
20% raises.
Better healthcare.
Real protections.

That’s worker power. ✊🏿
https://t.co/aj1VUSlAJZ

[Labor Network for Sustainability @LN4S]

Our Executive Director, Joshua Dedmond, was a guest on the Redneck Gone Green podcast with David Cobb!

Same Boss, Same Enemy: Why Workers and Environmentalists Win Together—or Not at All

https://t.co/2xyi4hJ9oG

[Clevelanders for Public Transit @CLEforTransit]

The hardworking @ATUComm Local 268 operators, mechanics, and other frontline transit workers keep us moving across Cleveland and Cuyahoga County. That's why we're celebrating ATU transit workers with coffee and donuts at both @GCRTA bus garages.

[Labor Network for Sustainability @LN4S]

Check out this video series from ZNetwork about Social Strikes--the latest report from our co-founder & senior strategic advisor, Jeremy Brecher!

[ZNet @OfficialZNET]

Next video in our ongoing series is up!
https://t.co/WcSxe0lFUs
@LN4S

[Labor Network for Sustainability @LN4S]

Later in her life, she said she never regretted what she did, and that she was responding to the anger she felt due to adults in her life not taking a stand.

[Labor Network for Sustainability @LN4S]

This Transit Equity Day, we remember Claudette Colvin, the civil rights icon who passed away last month at age 86. Colvin refused to move from a bus in Montgomery, Alabama when she was 15 years old riding home from school, 9 months before Rosa Parks did.

[Labor Network for Sustainability @LN4S]

Although Colvin’s brave act and large impact was not always given the credit she deserved, she was one of the 4 plaintiffs involved in the first federal court case challenging bus segregation in Montgomery.

[Labor Network for Sustainability @LN4S]

Adding benches has been shown to increase transit ridership, reduce perceived wait times, improve the sense of safety, and enhance overall transit experience. Benches help shift people from cars to buses—cutting traffic, pollution, climate impacts, and inequity.

[Labor Network for Sustainability @LN4S]

Have you seen a bench like this appear at a bus stop in your community? It's likely not from the transit agency--it's built by community advocates and volunteers! 💪

[Labor Network for Sustainability @LN4S]

In response to this, there has been a growing movement of grassroots groups who build, paint, install, and maintain a network of unauthorized bus stop benches in their communities--in San Francisco, Nashville, Connecticut, Washington, Denver, Kansas City, and more.

[Labor Network for Sustainability @LN4S]

We must advocate for better resources and equitably funded transit systems that improve reliability, access, and affordability.

Here are 2 bills that allow us to do just that. Call your reps and tell them why you believe these are essential to support! #TransitEquityDay

[Labor Network for Sustainability @LN4S]

Public transit is essential infrastructure that all communities deserve. However, the operating costs which are essential to keep our buses, trains, and trolleys running on a day-to-day basis are often ignored.

[Labor Network for Sustainability @LN4S]

As workers, riders, organizers, and advocates for transit equity, may we all remember the instrumental way that transit sparked one of the largest organized fights for civil rights in our country’s history, and keep that energy alive as we continue to fight for justice.

[Labor Network for Sustainability @LN4S]

Happy Transit Equity Day! And happy birthday to civil rights icon Rosa Parks, who this day was created in honor of for her fight for transit justice and racial equity during Jim Crow in 1955.

[Labor Network for Sustainability @LN4S]

Transit Equity Day was created by a network of labor unions to commemorate Parks and other civil rights icons and to advocate for accessible, reliable, and affordable transit powered by renewable energy for all people.