National Review: Representatives of America’s largest organized-labor
group predicted that the recently introduced Green New Deal resolution
would bring “immediate harm” to millions of workers if enacted in a
letter sent to the plan’s sponsors on Friday.
“We welcome the call for labor rights and dialogue with labor, but
the Green New Deal resolution is far too short on specific solutions
that speak to the jobs of our members and the critical sections of our
economy,” reads the letter, which was signed by ten national labor
unions on the AFL-CIO’s energy committee. “We will not accept proposals
that could cause immediate harm to millions of our members and their
families. We will not stand by and allow threats to our members’ jobs
and their families’ standard of living go [sic] unanswered.”
The Green New Deal resolution, which was introduced by
Senator Ed Markey (D., Mass.) and Representative Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), calls for a massive restructuring
of the
American economy in order to completely phase out the use of fossil
fuels within ten years. The plan, which has received the support of
every major Democratic presidential contender, promises to retrofit
every building in the country with renewable-energy technology and
provide a well-paying job in the clean-energy sector to every American
who wants one.
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