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Family-Supporting Union Jobs Major Component of Biden’s Climate Actions

The shift to clean energy is a tremendous opportunity to create jobs. The federal government must lead the way by insisting that public dollars are spent on American-made products, including renewable energy goods and clean vehicles, and that high labor standards are built into every action and attached to every federal incentive for clean energy. We call on Congress to support this order with the funding it requires while doing more to require high labor standards. 
Speech

Shuler to the Climate Jobs and Just Transition Summit: The Renewable Sector Must Be Unionized

AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler's remarks to the Climate Jobs and Just Transition Summit.
Speech

Trumka: We'll Either Have a Just Transition or No Transition at All

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on laying a politically and economically viable foundation for the transition to a clean economy to address climate change at the 2020 Ceres Global Investor Summit.
Media Hit

Richard Trumka Says New Legislation Would Combat Climate Change and Create Good Jobs (KTVZ)

Media Hit

Richard Trumka on Clean Coal and a Just Transition for Workers (Montana Public Radio)

Blog

Unionized Scientists March in Protest of Attacks on Science and Jobs

Of all the attacks on our civil society, the attacks on evidence-based science pose perhaps the greatest existential threat. Decisions being made about climate science and environmental protection at this critical time will shape the future of our planet.