UAW Joins BlueGreen Alliance in Push for Climate Bill. By Ben Geman, The Hill, August 23, 2010. "The United Auto Workers is the latest union to join the BlueGreen Alliance, which unites labor and environmental groups pushing for greenhouse gas limits and other policies to create 'green' jobs. The UAW... claims to have more than 390,000 active members... UAW President Bob King said... 'We have enormous opportunities to revitalize this industry, and the American economy, by embracing the clean energy economy of the future.' The BlueGreen Alliance was formally launched in 2006, and grew out of a less formal collaboration between the Sierra Club and the United Steelworkers. It also includes the Service Employees International Union, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Communications Workers of America and several other unions. The BlueGreen Alliance is in the midst of a cross-country bus tour aimed at reviving a broad Senate energy and climate-change bill that's currently on ice on Capitol Hill."
2010-09-03
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