Workday Minnesota (https://workdayminnesota.org/category/environment/)
A coalition of environmental justice groups and SEIU 26 representing workers who clean major Twin Cities office buildings released a study that criticizes major Minnesota corporations for policies blocking solutions to climate change and environmental racism.
Electrical Workers Local 1 and the St. Louis chapter of the National Electrical Contractors Association have launched the first electrical car training program in Missouri and one of the few in America.
Laborers Union members and members of the community who support creating jobs by rebuilding Minnesota\’s crumbling infrastructure are gathering to "Build Minnesota So Minnesota Works!" The rally will take place on Friday, June 17, at 1:30PM on the Historic Stone Arch Bridge in Downtown Minneapolis.
Viking Drill & Tool employee Doug Sachs says the transition to more environmentally friendly production at the St. Paul company has benefitted management, workers – and their wallets. “When you say green, people think cash,” he said.
Justin Brandt was sailing through his apprenticeship with Sheet Metal Workers Local 10. Having completed the union’s introductory classes, he was well on his way to logging the 8,000 hours of on-the-job training needed to secure his journeyman’s card.
The United Auto Workers has joined the Blue Green Alliance, a collaboration between trade unions and environmental groups.
Labor leaders in New Orleans say the oil spill will be worse for workers in this region than Hurricane Katrina was almost five years ago and that the major media, both locally and nationally, are actually downplaying its significance.
Continuing their campaign theme of “Good jobs are green jobs,” some 3,000 unionists and environmentalists descended on Washington the first week of May to strategize about and lobby for massive climate control and environmental and energy development legislation.
The Sierra Club, Southeast Minnesota Area Labor Council and allied organizations are touring Southeast Minnesota highlighting the thousands of clean energy jobs in the state.
Thousands of union members in Minnesota go to work every day in the clean energy economy, but their work is not always visible. The Blue Green Alliance puts a face on Minnesota’s green jobs through a photography exhibit Tuesday, April 20, at the State Capitol rotunda in St. Paul.
People who work in downtown office buildings don’t want to be exposed to toxic chemicals and support janitors who want to adopt “green” cleaning techniques, the leader of a major Minnesota environmental organization said Wednesday.
