“We don’t have to trade off good jobs for the environment and we don’t have to trade off the environment for good jobs.”
Sharon Griffith is an administrative assistant and shop steward for the Utility Workers Union of America Local 1-2, in New York City, and a member of UWUA’s Young Workers Initiative Committee. She has said young workers groups are ideally positioned to reverse decades of anti-union rhetoric.
For climate activist Alexandria Fisher, the labor movement has proven a vessel for making a more significant impact on climate-focused interventions than in more conventional climate spaces she’s engaged with, like the United Nations’s annual Conference of the Parties , which hasto accomplish its purpose. In 2017, Fisher took a job working in the Ministry of Energy in Alberta.
The influx of resources could majorly amplify ongoing efforts and simultaneously help the labor movement “save itself,” as John Hiatt, former chief of staff for the AFL-CIO president,There’s no shortage of youth-led union drives and young worker committees to amplify.
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