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Blog / Infrastructure and Community Resilience

Building Clean: Improving Efficiency, Health, and Equity in Housing and Creating Good Jobs

When buildings are designed, built, and maintained to protect the health of people and the environment—and if the manufacturing of building products and materials create good-paying union jobs in the U.S.—then the wellbeing of people and communities will improve, especially for people of color. Building Clean works to increase the use of building products that are more efficient, less toxic, and manufactured in the U.S. We aim to improve the physical, environmental, and economic health of communities and promote a more equitable future for all.

Policy Priorities / Clean Economy Union Jobs

Solidarity for Climate Action: The Plan We Need to Get American Manufacturing Back on Track

Manufacturing towns dot the nation, and advanced manufacturing helps provide the foundation for the economy in major regions of the United States. Industries like the steel and automotive industries supported good-paying jobs, middle-class families, and prosperous communities for decades, while also spurring American leadership in innovation and technology. That’s still true in some areas. But in many others, factories have closed or new industries offer jobs that all too often are poorly paid, insecure, or unsafe.

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Policy Priorities / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing

Backgrounder: EVs Are Coming. Will They Be Made in the USA?

This backgrounder, from the BlueGreen Alliance, United Steelworkers, United Auto Workers, and the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Council, reviews the factors likely to drive U.S. job gains and job losses related to electrification of the U.S. and global vehicle fleet. We also examine the key role the auto sector plays in the U.S. economy and preview policy options that can make electrification a winning strategy for U.S. workers, industries, and the communities that need it most. Our focus is on sustaining, creating, and improving access to good-paying, secure jobs with safe working conditions. 

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American Rescue Plan Provides Much Needed Relief

The U.S. House of Representatives today passed President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan, a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill that includes funding for schools, state and local governments vaccine distribution, enforcement of Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations, and extended unemployment insurance, as well as other items. In response the BlueGreen Alliance released the following statement from Executive Director Jason Walsh:

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PRO Act Will Help Build Clean, Thriving, and Equitable Economy for All

The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act was today introduced in the U.S. House by Congressman Bobby Scott (D-VA) and U.S. Senate by Senator Patty Murray (D-WA). “If we’re going to tackle systematic racial and economic injustice and build a clean, thriving, and equitable economy for all workers, we need strong unions. The PRO Act ensures workers have a fair shot to band together and collectively bargain for better wages and benefits, safer workplaces, a cleaner environment, and a better future,” said BlueGreen Alliance Executive Director Jason Walsh.

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