Climate Justice Policies
We need to transition to a clean economy that runs on renewable energy with good union jobs at its core.
We need to transition to a clean economy that runs on renewable energy with good union jobs at its core.
We start from one core belief: that public goods should create the most public good. In practice, this means that the billions of public dollars our government spends every year to invest in public goods like transit, infrastructure, education, and
Chicago is transitioning to 100 percent clean, renewable energy by 2030 -- to get there, the city has also planned to create good jobs.
We’re advocating for a good jobs and equity policy at the nation's largest transportation agency: New York's MTA.
CTA will be the second transit agency nationally and the largest agency to apply our signature good jobs policy, the USEP, to its major procurements.
The ElectrifyNY coalition pushed the largest transit agency in the country to commit to electrifying its entire bus fleet.
This pre-apprenticeship program will train people with systemic barriers to employment for clean, union jobs in the manufacturing industry.
In 2018, LA Metro committed to creating tens of thousands of good manufacturing jobs by adopting our good jobs and equity policy.
Our community-labor coalition is developing a jobs pipeline to train Chicagoans facing barriers to employment for jobs at CRRC, a railcar manufacturer in Chicago.
In 2017, the LA Department of Transportation committed to applying our signature good jobs and equity policy to all future purchases of clean transit equipment.