Abstract
The President of the Communications Workers of America, Larry Cohen, urges large-scale investments in research and technology in response to economic turmoil and climate change. He envisions one million made-in-America hybrid cars running on U.S. roadways by 2015 and use of alternative energy doubling within three years.
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CWA represents 700,000 workers in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. It's one of America's fastest growing unions. CWA members work in communications, media, airlines, manufacturing, and public service.
2.Green Recovery: A Program to Create Jobs and Start Building a Low-Carbon Economy , was written by Robert Pollin, Heidi Garrett-Peltier, James Heintz, and Helen Scharber of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University of Massachusetts-Amherst. The report was commissioned by the Center for American Progress. Project Managers at CAP were Kit Batten, Managing Director for Energy and Environmental Policy, and Bracken Hendricks, Senior Fellow.
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Green Jobs for America is a national campaign to educate the public about the need for investments in good, green jobs. Partners include the United Steelworkers, Sierra Club, Blue Green Alliance, Natural Resources Defense Council, Working America, Green for All, Center for American Progress, and the New Jersey Work Environment Council.
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For more about the Cobasys and GE stories, go to www.cwa-union.org/news/green-manufacturing-tales-of-job-growth-and-job-export.html