Unions, Hippies, and Politicians - Oh My…
February 15th, 2009
Claire McEachern
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| Photo Credit: 2 Miles |
Scratch that.
I mean “Joe six-packs” and granola-eating tree huggers.
Oh, dear!
What I am really trying to say is that the two most visible groups at the Good Jobs, Green Jobs Conference (held in Washington D.C. from February 4th to 6th) were the United Steel Workers and the Sierra Club. That fact has raised many an eyebrow of disbelief and curiosity. These two groups have even helped form an alliance, the Blue-Green Alliance that is, and are leaders in the movement to create a new economy based on energy efficiency, safe environmental practices, and jobs that actually “make stuff”.
