Policy Priorities / Workers' Rights
States, municipalities, and companies can protect workers who are exposed to extreme heat by ensuring that safeguards are put into a written policy and enforced. The checklist below is your tool to ensure that workers are safeguarded against the threat of deadly heat exposure. Provisions are science-backed and designed to prevent heat illness before it…
Policy Priorities / Clean Economy Union Jobs
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 is a robust package to revitalize U.S. manufacturing and grow clean energy around the country, invest in economic and racial justice programs, and support and create the good-paying, union jobs we need to give all workers the opportunity for a middle-class life.
Policy Priorities / For America, By America
The bipartisan deal is a start, not the end, of what we need to build back better. Congress must act boldly and invest in America to build a clean, prosperous, and equitable economy.
Policy Priorities / Racial and Economic Equity and Environmental Justice
Systemic racism and oppression are knotted into all of the challenges to building a clean, healthy, and thriving economy for all— the issues that the BlueGreen Alliance was created to address. Intertwined problems require solutions that address the impact on all of the strands. Our new “Solidarity For Racial Equity” platform is designed to ensure that…
Policy Priorities / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
More than 60 labor unions, environmental groups, and faith, consumer, health, and economic justice organizations sent a letter to Senate Democrats urging them to support the inclusion of a bonus tax credit for consumer electric vehicles manufactured in factories where workers are represented by a union, a provision included in the Build Back Better Act.…
Policy Priorities / For America, By America
Electric vehicles (EVs) are coming, and our global competitors are rushing to capture the economic, jobs, and manufacturing benefits of this shift.
Policy Priorities / Industrial Transformation
Serious action to address climate change and strengthen the U.S. economy for all requires substantial investment in rebuilding our manufacturing sector in ways that will deeply reduce emissions while building domestic supply chains and creating and protecting good jobs for workers and communities across the nation.
Policy Priorities / Fairness for Workers and Communities
America’s energy transition is well underway, but a transition that is fair for workers and communities isn’t something that will happen organically. Prioritizing and targeting federal resources to workers and communities in places impacted by this shift must be a deliberate choice.
Policy Priorities / Clean Economy Union Jobs
America’s energy transition is well underway. This platform is a roadmap to ensure that the transition is fair for workers and communities.
Policy Priorities / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
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.