September 2009 Edition
| Moving Forward by Leslie Moody, Partnership Executive Director The emerging green energy economy offers great promise for rebuilding America’s middle class. Read how the Partnership is working to ensure that federal, state, and city funds support a new green economy that grows the next generation of construction trades workers with access to family-supporting jobs. |
| Clean Air Efforts Move to Capitol Hill; Partnership Affiliates Asked to Help the Ports Campaign Change the Law by Aditi Vaidya, EBASE Port Program Director The stakes are getting high in the fight for good jobs and clean air, and the movement is headed to Washington, DC. Read how the Coalition for Clean & Safe Ports is taking its fight to the federal level. |
| Green Jobs and Green Communities by Working Partnerships USA Read about Working Partnerships USA's Green Economy project that aims to create quality green jobs, promote climate justice, and move towards green and equitable communities at the regional, state, and national level. |
| Fighting for Green Jobs at the Port of Los Angeles by Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy Read about LAANE's latest report, Building Opportunity: Investing in Our Future through a Port Construction Careers Policy, revealing the potential jobs impact that the billions in planned infrastructure investment at the Port of L.A. will bring over the next ten years. |
| Green Jobs in Energy-Efficiency Retrofitting: Moving from Promise to Policy in New Jersey by Garden State Alliance for a New Economy Read about the efforts of GANE and the Laborers Union Local 55 to build to scale its highly publicized pilot project to weatherize homes in low-income urban communities and provide access to good jobs and career ladders to workers who have historically faced barriers to entry into mainstream construction work. |
| FRESC: Making the Case for Good Green Jobs by FRESC Read about FRESC's efforts to connect good jobs to green standards at the Union Station site and partner with labor and environmental groups to identify and promote opportunities to ensure that weatherization jobs are good paying jobs with career advancement for women and people of color. |
| A Green Justice Breakthrough in Massachusetts by By Soledad Boyd & Jeremy Shenk, Community Labor United Senior Organizers Read about the Massachusetts Green Justice Coalition's recent victory for social justice and the environment of adding equity provisions into the state's energy efficiency plans. |
| Building a New Weatherization Program in Wisconsin by Pam Fendt, GJLN Coordinator Read about GJLN's work with the Wisconsin Laborers District Council and the Laborers Great Lakes Region Organizing Committee to shape Wisconsin’s expanded weatherization program. |
