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Labor and the Environment

What do Labor Unions and Environmental Organizations have in common?

For decades, environmental groups and labor unions have found common cause in efforts to promote citizen action, hold corporations accountable, and fight for safe workplaces and healthy communities. Today, environmentalists and unions are forming alliances at the local, state and national levels to work together on a broad range of issues such as promoting clean energy solutions and holding corporations accountable.

Protect Workers and the Environment
United Steelworkers and Sierra Club staff at the Blue Green Alliance Green Jobs Conference in Pittsburgh, PA.


March 26, 2008: New York Times
Millions of Jobs of a Different Collar

March 13-14, 2008
Good Jobs Green Jobs: National Green Jobs Conference

February 25, 2008
Our Outdoor Heritage at Risk: Confronting the Challenge of Global Warming and Creating Green Manufacturing Jobs

February 20, 2008
Sierra Club and AFL-CIO Join Forces in Rhode Island

February 11, 2008
Conference Will Promote Benefits of Green Economy

 

find out more
The Power of Partnerships(pdf file)
Unions Help Protect Workers and the Environment(674kb pdf)
Green Collar Workers by Jim Young, Sierra Magazine
Green + Blue = Powerful Alliance by John Barry, Planet Newsletter
Greens and Labor: It's a Coalition that Gives Corporate Polluter Fits by David Moberg, Sierra Magazine


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