Unions launch Climate Jobs coalition in Michigan
Unions in Michigan launched Michigan Climate Jobs, a coalition of labor unions building a worker-led affordable clean energy future now and into the future. The coalition also unveiled a comprehensive report from Cornell University’s Climate Jobs Institute outlining a blueprint for a worker-led clean energy future in the Great Lakes State.
“We launched Michigan Climate Jobs to ensure a worker-led clean energy future that puts labor in the driver’s seat to lead on combating the climate crisis, making energy affordable and reliable, and protecting workers today and for generations to come. The jobs needed to create the clean energy economy absolutely must be union jobs because it’s union jobs that will deliver family-sustaining wages, good benefits, and safety for workers,” said Ryan Bennett, chair of Michigan Climate Jobs and president of the Michigan Pipe Trades Association.
Read more about Michigan Climate Jobs’ launch and new report as covered by WILX 10 News and Solar Power World.
“Climate action must work for working people”
Climate Jobs New Jersey hit the ground running after the coalition’s launch earlier this year.Inside Climate News covers the coalition’s focus on creating high-quality union jobs, tackling climate change, and advancing energy affordability for working families.
“[C]limate action must work for working people. If we don’t center affordability, job quality and equity, then we’re not actually solving the crisis; we are shifting the costs onto the same communities that have already paid the high price,” said Ana Maria Hill, vice president and New Jersey state director of 32BJ SEIU.Read More
“Labor’s work for climate action will continue on”
In a Common Dreams op-ed, Maine AFL-CIO Vice President Grant Provost underscores how Maine’s labor unions have taken action to advance clean energy and deliver for working people despite massive cuts to clean energy from the federal government.
“If we want climate policy to be popular and durable, it needs to do more than reduce emissions. It needs to materially deliver for working people—with good jobs, higher wages, and lower bills. It’s both possible and necessary to do all of this at once.”Read More
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