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California Labor Unions Support Global Warming Solutions: Green Jobs Seen as Future
By Andrea Buffa
UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education
As California moves toward a decision on how it will implement AB 32, the state’s landmark “Global Warming Solutions Act,” there is increasing interest in the legislation on the part of labor unions, who want to make sure that the AB 32 implementation plan not only benefits the environment but also benefits California’s economy and workers.
While labor unions in the United States have had a mixed record on global warming mitigation measures in the past (until this year the AFL-CIO opposed the Kyoto Protocol), today most US unions are starting to voice their support for policies to reduce global warming and the US dependence on oil. Just last month, the Teamsters reversed its support of drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and Teamsters President Jim Hoffa told a crowd of labor and environmental activists in Oakland that, “We must find a long-term approach [to our energy problems] that breaks our dependence on foreign oil by investing in the development of alternate energy sources like solar, wind and geothermal power."
In California, building and construction trades unions have long promoted energy efficiency measures like retrofitting buildings for energy efficiency for their promise to reduce greenhouse gas emissions AND create high quality jobs. Several of their apprenticeship programs offer training in cutting-edge green construction techniques. Like most of the labor community, the trades want to make sure that the green jobs created by climate mitigation legislation like AB 32 are high-quality jobs with family-supporting wages, benefits and a career pathway. They also want to make sure that workers in heavy-greenhouse-gas emitting industries who lose their jobs because of climate mitigation legislation receive financial support and retraining.
A recent op-ed published in the San Francisco Chronicle articulates California labor unions’ general principles when it comes to global warming legislation. In the op-ed, Art Pulaski, Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the California Labor Federation, and Ken Jacobs, Chair of the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education, call for the California Air Resources Board to pay more attention to the key role California’s workers will play in restructuring the state’s economy to reduce its carbon footprint, and the impact this change will have on them. They recommend incorporating the following ideas into the AB 32 implementation plan:
-- Invest in the California workforce.
-- Favor policies that are proven to create good, middle-class jobs.
-- Prevent jobs from leaving the state.
-- Help workers transition to a greener California economy.
-- Invest in infrastructure and innovation.
The op-ed ends with the following: “AB32 can be a win for the environment and a win for working people. But the win-win is not going to be created by wishful thinking; it's going to be created by intentional policies like those above. The Air Resources Board has the opportunity to help shape this major restructuring of our economy in a way that promotes California businesses, creates good jobs for a skilled and stable workforce, and reduces our carbon footprint. Our planet and its people depend on it.” To read the op-ed in its entirely, click here.
For more information about labor unions’ interest in global warming legislation, see the new report released last week by the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education: California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: A Background Paper for Labor Unions.
Andrea Buffa is the UC Berkeley Labor Center’s Communications Analyst.
Comments
You should take a look at this. These guys seem to have found a global warming solution
http://southern-cross.webs.com/apps/blog/show/645450-global-warming-solution-y3000-plan-part-3a
Posted by: sally at March 29, 2009 06:16 AM
You should take a look at this. These guys seem to have found a global warming solution
http://southern-cross.webs.com/apps/blog/show/645450-global-warming-solution-y3000-plan-part-3a
Posted by: sally at March 29, 2009 06:18 AM
You should take a look at this. These guys seem to have found a global warming solution
http://southern-cross.webs.com/apps/blog/show/645450-global-warming-solution-y3000-plan-part-3a
Posted by: sally at March 29, 2009 06:18 AM
Dear friends
I have some global cooling ideas which could save California a LOT of money, plus provide jobs, plus help California avoid such disasters as forest fires, droughts, and heat waves.
Please read:
Flip and Fly Solar Glider Arrays Could Cool Earth
Vast arrays of lightweight, sleek, inflatable, foil and biodegradable or recyclable plastic membrane, inexpensive and mass-produced glider wings, which fly above the clouds, to absorb, convert, and reflect sunlight. Purpose: To counteract and reverse global warming, and some of its causes.
The details are at: http://flipandflysolargliders.blogspot.com/
I really think this can solve the climate crisis.
Sincerely,
Peter N Fisk
Posted by: Peter Fisk at July 12, 2009 01:06 PM
Dear friends
I have some global cooling ideas which could save California a LOT of money, plus provide jobs, plus help California avoid such disasters as forest fires, droughts, and heat waves.
Please read:
Flip and Fly Solar Glider Arrays Could Cool Earth
Vast arrays of lightweight, sleek, inflatable, foil and biodegradable or recyclable plastic membrane, inexpensive and mass-produced glider wings, which fly above the clouds, to absorb, convert, and reflect sunlight. Purpose: To counteract and reverse global warming, and some of its causes.
The details are at: http://flipandflysolargliders.blogspot.com/
I really think this can solve the climate crisis.
Sincerely,
Peter N Fisk
Posted by: Peter Fisk at July 12, 2009 01:07 PM
Dear friends
I have some global cooling ideas which could save California a LOT of money, plus provide jobs, plus help California avoid such disasters as forest fires, droughts, and heat waves.
Please read:
Flip and Fly Solar Glider Arrays Could Cool Earth
Vast arrays of lightweight, sleek, inflatable, foil and biodegradable or recyclable plastic membrane, inexpensive and mass-produced glider wings, which fly above the clouds, to absorb, convert, and reflect sunlight. Purpose: To counteract and reverse global warming, and some of its causes.
The details are at: http://flipandflysolargliders.blogspot.com/
I really think this can solve the climate crisis.
Sincerely,
Peter N Fisk
Posted by: Peter Fisk at July 12, 2009 01:13 PM
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