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Why Green Jobs Should Be Union Jobs

Why Green Jobs Should Be Union Jobs

→  February 9, 2010 Comments Off

By Joe Uehlein, Labor Network for Sustainability [PDF version of this report is available here] Thousands of “green jobs” have been created by President Obama’s stimulus package; millions more will be created by proposed climate legislation; tens of millions will be required to create the low-carbon economy that scientists say is necessary for the survival of the [...]

Labor’s changing approach to climate change

Labor’s changing approach to climate change

→  April 30, 2009 Comments Off

Some unions dissented early from AFL-CIO climate policy.  In 1990 the Steelworkers, America’s largest and most diversified manufacturing union with a strong history of environmentalism created an executive board committee on environmental issues and issued a policy statement saying that global warming “may be the single greatest problem we face. Some have compared its possible [...]