Great news: the AFL-CIO announced this morning that it is forming a new Center for Green Jobs at its Washington, D.C., headquarters.According to President John Sweeney, "the mission of the center is not only to engage public policy but to also move beyond that to help our labor unions implement real green jobs initiatives—initiatives that retain and create good union jobs, provide pathways to those jobs and assist with the design and implementation of training programs to prepare incumbent workers as well as job seekers for these family-sustaining careers."
I hope this new effort will accomplish the two goals it aims for -- to end once and for all the idea that job creation and environmentalism are inherently opposed, and too further the belief that a job cannot be truly green unless it is as sustainable for employee as it is for the planet.
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