Swapping Stories: Green Jobs
Bolivia Climate Conference Ends on High Note
by J. J. Johnson/ 1199SEIU Our Life & Times
April 22, 2010
Though an official number has not been released, reports suggest that there are at least 20,000 delegates to the World’s People Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth. The overwhelming majority are from here, Cochabamba, and other areas of Bolivia. Huge numbers are from throughout Latin America. Among the 100 or so from North America, there don’t appear to be many trade unionists. From the U.S., 1199SEIU Executive VP Estela Vazquez and I are the only delegates representing unions.
UNIONISTS, ALLIES, CONTINUE ‘GOOD JOBS = GREEN JOBS’ PUSH
UNIONISTS, ALLIES, CONTINUE
‘GOOD JOBS = GREEN JOBS’ PUSH
By Mark Gruenberg
PAI Staff Writer
WASHINGTON (PAI)--Continuing their campaign theme of “Good jobs are green jobs,” some 3,000 unionists and environmentalists descended on Washington the first week of May to strategize about and lobby for massive climate control and environmental and energy development legislation.
AYERS: BUILDING TRADES HELPING TO CREATE PRIVATE-SECTOR JOBS
AYERS: BUILDING TRADES BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS WITH
‘KEY INDUSTRY PLAYERS’ TO CREATE PRIVATE-SECTOR JOBS
WASHINGTON (PAI)--The union presidents who sit on the AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department board have spent the past two years trying to build relationships with “key industry players,” in order to create private-sector union jobs, Building Trades President Mark Ayers said.
UNIONS URGE SENATORS TO BACK DOLLARS FOR DOMESTIC ‘CLEAN ENERGY’ DEVELOPMENT
UNIONS URGE SENATORS TO BACK DOLLARS
FOR DOMESTIC ‘CLEAN ENERGY’ DEVELOPMENT
WASHINGTON (PAI)--The AFL-CIO, Change To Win and four unions -- along with 200 businesses and 13 national organizations -- are urging the three senators writing a new comprehensive climate change and control bill to include loans and grants for domestic development and manufacturing of ‘clean energy’ products.
