Labor Organizers Focus on Renewable Energy Jobs

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http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2009/02/labor-organizers-focus-on-renewable-energy-jobs

At the heart of the economic stimulus package making its way through Congress is the creation of jobs in renewable energy and other environmentally friendly services. But a new report released by labor organizers and environmentalists warns that those jobs must be more than green.

The new report, entitled High Road or Low Road, Job Quality in the New Green Economy, says that green jobs must comply with standards that can sustain families and fuel the economy as well as protect the environment.

Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow says a green agenda can help reverse the enormous job losses in her state in recent years.

"I can sit in Michigan in the beautiful Upper Peninsula and watch barges come down from the St. Lawrence Seaway across Lake Superior over to Duluth, Minnesota, that have wind turbines on them, made outside this country," she says.

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