Green Labor Journal Highlights Clean Coal Opportunities
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Generating clean energy by developing ways to make electricity using clean coal technologies could create more than 7 million new green jobs over the next 15 years, according to several studies.
The latest online edition of Green Labor Journal reviews several studies that show the potential for clean coal to create jobs and lower carbon emissions. The article discusses policy options for stimulating job-friendly investments in advanced coal generation through regulation and legislative initiatives. The Green Labor Journal is a collaboration between the National Labor College and the AFL-CIO Center for Green Jobs. Check out the latest online edition here.
Green Labor Journal Highlights Clean Energy Strategies
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Clean energy is essential to the future of the planet and the Ironworkers is making sure its members can take advantage of the new opportunities for green jobs. The union has developed an installation training program for commercial and industrial applications of the solar-air heating product SolarWall®.
The latest online edition of Green Labor Journal explains how the Ironworkers joined with SolarWall® to help workers become a key part of the solar air heating sector in the United States and Canada, while at the same time providing clients with the highest quality installation. The Green Labor Journal is a collaboration between the National Labor College and the AFL-CIO Center for Green Jobs. Check out the latest online edition here.
Ironworkers President Joseph Hunt says:
Adding this new technology to existing buildings and erecting it on new construction projects will not only help put Americans back to work but it can also help this country in the battle to achieve energy independence and reduce the greenhouse gases produced by using conventional means to heat buildings. The Iron Workers have the training in place across North America and we are positioned as the workforce which is trained to properly install this new technology.
Check Out the Latest Green Labor Journal
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The economy of the future is green and the global race to create new green jobs is fast. In the new online edition of the Green Labor Journal, Rachel Emas, a graduate student at Florida International University, profiles the eight U.S. states that have a lead in creating green jobs.
She also discusses the policies that encourage the development of green industries. These policies can help increase employment, reduce inequality and poverty, move towards sustainability, ensure a stable economy, and protect the environment for future generations. Read this and other informative and thought-provoking articles in the Green Labor Journal at www.greenlaborjournal.org.
Newest Green Labor Journal Now Online
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Check out the latest issue of Green Labor Journal, a monthly online journal that examines issues of green jobs, sustainability, clean energy and climate change from a labor movement perspective. The Green Labor Journal is a joint effort of the National Labor College (NLC) and the AFL-CIO Center for Green Jobs.
Features in this issue inlcude:
* A new UAW report on clean cars, climate change and green jobs that explores how building green cars could create 150,000 jobs.
* A look at the Ironworker Management Progressive Action Cooperative Trust’s (IMPACT‘s) program that provides wind turbine erection training and green construction jobs for workers.
* An interview with the CEO of American Wind Energy Association on today’s 85,000 wind energy jobs and Department of Energy projections that wind can provide 20 percent of U.S. electricity by 2030.
Click here for the full issue.
Share Your Job Crisis Story, Connect with Activists at Our New Good Jobs Now Site
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Good Jobs Now, the AFL-CIO’s new interactive website, gives workers, people who have lost their jobs and activists a chance to take action, share their stories, find resources and, most importantly, be part of a grassroots movement to help the nation climb out of its 10-million jobs hole created by the recession.
Just launched this morning, Good Jobs Now’s first featured action is a petition calling on Whirlpool Corp., to reverse its decision to close its Evansville, Ind., plant and send work to Mexico, eliminating 1,100 good jobs.
As the AFL-CIO’s Good Jobs Now mobilization heats up in the coming weeks, you will be able to find events in your area so you can join the growing movement demanding that lawmakers focus on job creation and hold corporations like Whirlpool and big Wall Street banks accountable for their economic damage.
To help build and connect a community of job activists, the new site gives workers, employed and jobless, the opportunity to share their stories, photos and videos of how the job crisis has affected them, their families and communities, as well as ideas about the best ways to solve the job crisis and help rebuild the middle class. You also can read and comment on the stories.
Labor College Launches Green Labor Journal
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The National Labor College (NLC) and the AFL-CIO’s Center for Green Jobs recently launched the Green Labor Journal, a monthly online journal that examines issues of sustainability, energy use and climate change from a union perspective.
The journal will showcase union green initiatives and provide up-to-date information on new developments in green policy, technology and work processes.
Each month, the Green Labor Journal will emphasize that green jobs must pay decent wages and benefits so workers can sustain themselves and their families. All green policy initiatives also must include fair labor standards.
The online journal also will highlight the important role of unions in environmental debates. Check out the latest version of the Green Labor Journal here.
Made in America Jobs Tour: Investing in Green Economy Creates Jobs
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Workers, union leaders and business executives joined Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson today to deliver the message that investing in clean energy not only is good for our environment but also would create millions of good green jobs to rejuvenate the economy and rebuild the nation’s middle class.
Jackson spoke at a rally in Gary, Ind., as part of the nationwide Made in America Jobs Tour sponsored by the Blue Green Alliance and the Alliance for Climate Protection’s Repower America campaign. The tour kicked off Aug. 20 in Cleveland and will involve more than 50 events in 22 states, including rallies in St. Louis, Detroit, Pittsburgh and Gary.
Holt Baker: Unions Leading Way to Green Economy
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America’s future is green and the union movement is in the forefront of creating a new green economy, says AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker.
Speaking to the A. Philip Randolph Institute (APRI) education conference in Phoenix last week, Holt Baker said:
“One of our biggest opportunities lies in the creation of green jobs, and a new vision of America that our labor movement is helping make happen.”
She credited many unions for undertaking green initiatives, including the United Steelworkers (USW), the UAW, AFT, AFSCME and the building trades. She also pointed to the institute’s Center for Green Jobs and APRI’s new computer learning lab in Pittsburgh as examples of the ways in which unions are preparing workers for a green economy.
IUOE Project Shows Union Workers Ready for Green Jobs
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Many of the green jobs of “the future” already exist and are performed by union members who make energy-efficient products and teach others how to conserve energy.
Take Operating Engineers Local 49, which represents workers in Minnesota and the Dakotas. Members of the local recently built a wind turbine farm in the small town of Chandler, Minn. Crane operators from the local union hoisted the turbines into place as other members dug trenches for the transmission lines and did the grading.
Glen Johnson, business manager for Local 49, tells the Operating Engineers (IUOE) magazine, International Operating Engineer:
We’re green. We’ve been green a long time. When our operators are building roads and bridges, key environmental factors must be met.
Get Economic Recovery Information at the Working for America Institute
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With billions in federal economic recovery funds available for job training and education, the AFL-CIO Working for America Institute is the go-to place for union leaders seeking the latest information on training and workforce development opportunities. Through a series of Web announcements, webinars and conference calls, the institute is keeping the union movement abreast of the opportunities to better educate the nation’s workforce and rebuild the middle class.
The institute offers a practical new guide to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. For example, the latest posting announces some $220 million in new training grants for health care and high-growth industries. The U.S. Labor Department defines high growth and emerging industries—in addition to health care—as fields such as information technology, advanced manufacturing, wireless and broadband deployment, transportation and warehousing and biotechnology.
