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The ten-week total for unemployment claims has reached 40.8 million, suggesting about a quarter of our workforce has lost jobs during the pandemic and projections suggest that even if we start to recover, the unemployment rate will still be around 9.3% by the end of the year. And months into this pandemic, workers continue to…
Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
Leaders from the BlueGreen Alliance—a national partnership of labor unions and environmental organizations—today released a national agenda to rebuild American manufacturing, cut pollution, and create and sustain the good-paying jobs necessary to rebuild the middle class and help fix America’s beleaguered economy.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Buy Clean
The BlueGreen Alliance’s manufacturing agenda proposes a set of national actions to achieve global leadership across clean technology manufacturing; cut emissions from the production of essential materials; upgrade and modernize the entirety of the U.S. industrial base within three decades; and undertake a new generation of industrial development that rebuilds good American jobs and is clean, safe, and fair for workers and communities alike.
Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
Leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives today unveiled new, economic-recovery focused legislation to rebuild America’s infrastructure and boost American manufacturing called the Moving Forward Act.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Clean Economy Union Jobs
White working-class voters in the Midwest were a critical component of Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016. However, a new poll of 752 white working-class voters released by the BlueGreen Alliance tells the story of a new landscape.
Testimony & Comments / Clean Economy Union Jobs
BlueGreen Alliance Executive Director Jason Walsh today testified at a virtual forum of the House Committee on Natural Resources titled “After Coronavirus: Building a Prosperous, Environmentally Friendly Economy.”
Letters / Clean Economy Union Jobs
The BlueGreen Alliance and partners wrote to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, thanking them for their leadership during the Covid-19 pandemic and urging them to implement policy recommendations to keep workers as safe as steps are taken to reopen the economy.