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Green Jobs

Blue-Green alliances.

Green Jobs

Shouldn’t electric cars mean good jobs?

Jan 7, 2022

Gordon Lafer says the federal government should put workers’ rights conditions on the coming billions in subsidy.

Green Jobs

Daimler: The future of Freightliner is electric

Sep 1, 2021

U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley got a look at Daimler’s new electric trucks on a visit to a Swan Island electric fueling station .

Green Jobs

Renewable diesel fuel refinery will be union built and operated

Mar 31, 2021

Construction work on the $1.6 billion project could begin in early 2022 at Port Westward near Clatskanie and employ 800 workers.

Green Jobs

Colossal energy storage project in Columbia Gorge will be union-built

Mar 18, 2021

The Goldendale Energy Storage Project would be the area’s biggest project since the Columbia River hydro dams were built.

Green Jobs

PGE’s new windfarm: union-built

Jan 12, 2021

When complete, the Wheatridge Renewable Energy Facility will be one of the nation’s largest wind/solar/battery combinations.

Green Jobs

Environmental groups say green jobs need to pay a living wage

Jan 12, 2021

At least 16 groups have signed a letter to senators supporting a call by the Oregon State Building Trades Council for “high-road” standards.

Green Jobs

Green jobs, but not for you

Jul 14, 2020

Oregon construction unions say state-subsidized clean energy work is going to nonunion out-of-state firms and out-of-state crews.

Green Jobs

Merkley bill: Green jobs should be union jobs

Aug 6, 2019

A bill in the U.S. Senate would incentivize private renewable energy projects to sign union-brokered project labor agreements and follow the federal government’s Davis Bacon prevailing wage requirements for construction.

Green Jobs

Oregon climate response: Cap and invest?

Jan 16, 2018

Big carbon emitters would get market incentives to convert.

Green Jobs

If Labor and Greens join forces

Oct 3, 2017

What role will organized labor play in the transition to a zero-carbon economy?

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