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Building Clean: Buy Local, Buy Healthy

Sep 12, 2016

The Energy Efficiency Products Database is supported by the BlueGreen Alliance Foundation and it highlights a broad range of energy efficiency housing products and forms part of a larger national initiative to accelerate the retrofit of multifamily, low-income facilities.

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Solidarity for Climate Action: The Plan We Need to Get American Manufacturing Back on Track

Jul 25, 2019

Manufacturing towns dot the nation, and advanced manufacturing helps provide the foundation for the economy in major regions of the United States. Industries like the steel and automotive industries supported good-paying jobs, middle-class families, and prosperous communities for decades, while also spurring American leadership in innovation and technology. That’s still true in some areas. But in many others, factories have closed or new industries offer jobs that all too often are poorly paid, insecure, or unsafe.

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Limited Scope of OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard Leaves too Many Workers in Danger

Jun 10, 2021

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) today released an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The ETS applies only to healthcare workers and was released alongside updated general industry guidance.

Blog / American Jobs Plan Blog Series

Wonk Wednesday: Standing up for Worker’s Rights

May 05, 2021

The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act—which President Joe Biden included in his historic American Jobs Plan—is a meaningful step to bringing back the American middle class.

Policy Priorities / Good Jobs

BlueGreen Alliance National Energy Transition Policy Framework

May 05, 2021

America’s energy transition is well underway. This platform is a roadmap to ensure that the transition is fair for workers and communities.

Workers' Rights

PRO Act Crucial to Protecting the Rights of Workers, Growing Thriving, Equitable Economy

Mar 10, 2021

The United States House of Representatives today passed the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act. The PRO Act is designed to ensure workers can band together to negotiate better wages and safer working conditions by ending prohibitions on collective and class action litigation; prohibiting employers from permanently replacing striking employees; and amending how employees are defined to ensure that no one is misclassified as an independent contractor. In addition, it would strengthen remedies and enforcement for employees who are exercising their rights; create a mediation and arbitration process for new unions; protect against captive audience meetings; and streamline National Labor Relations Board procedures.

Policy Priorities / Workers' Rights

BlueGreen Alliance Priorities for Economic Recovery

Jan 29, 2021

As we make investments to get the economy back on track, everything we do must be aimed at building a stronger, fairer, and cleaner economy that creates and sustains the good, high-paying jobs of the future and makes our communities and workers more resilient to crises.

Letters / Workers' Rights

BlueGreen Alliance Calls for Comprehensive COVID-19 Relief Package

Jan 29, 2021

The BlueGreen Alliance sent a letter to Congressional leadership urging the prioritization of workers and families as Congress continues to work to provide critical relief during the COVID-19 crisis.

Workers' Rights

Mitch McConnell, Senate Republicans Vote on another Pitiful COVID-19 Relief Package

Oct 23, 2020

The U.S. Senate recently voted on Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s new $500 billion COVID-19 relief package that includes provisions from their previously released HEALS Act, which would shield corporations from liability if their employees contract COVID-19 on the job.

Workers' Rights

House Passes another Covid-19 Relief Package while Senate Republicans Sit on their Hands

Oct 02, 2020

The U.S. House of Representatives today passed an updated version of the HEROES Act—a bill that Republicans in the Senate have refused to bring to a floor vote for four months.

Workers' Rights

Senate Republicans’ New COVID Package Just as Bad as HEALS

Sep 10, 2020

The U.S. Senate today voted on Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s COVID-19 relief package that includes provisions from their previously released HEALS Act, which would shield corporations from liability if their employees contract COVID-19 on the job.

Letters / Workers' Rights

BlueGreen Alliance Calls for Robust COVID-19 Relief Package

Aug 06, 2020

The BlueGreen Alliance sent a letter to Congressional leadership urging the prioritization of workers and families as Congress continues to work to provide critical relief during the COVID-19 crisis.

Policy Priorities / Workers' Rights

COVID-19 Federal Response & Economic Stimulus – BlueGreen Alliance Legislative Priorities

Aug 06, 2020

It is critical we ensure the safety of workers on the job in the face of COVID-19, whether they are nurses on the frontlines, workers in warehouses, utility workers keeping the lights on across the country, or manufacturing workers building essential products. Congress has taken significant steps to protect workers, and must continue to prioritize the most vulnerable; safeguard working peoples’ jobs, homes, and livelihoods; shore up essential public services; and protect the health and safety of frontline workers.

Good Jobs

Maine Environmental Organizations Stand in Solidarity with Striking Bath Iron Works Workers

Jul 31, 2020

The following is a statement from the BlueGreen Alliance, Conservation Law Foundation, Environmental Health Strategy Center, Maine Conservation Voters, Maine People’s Alliance, Natural Resources Council of Maine, and Sierra Club Maine, who are standing in solidarity with the workers on strike at Bath Iron Works:

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Building Clean: Buy Local, Buy Healthy

Solidarity for Climate Action: The Plan We Need to Get American Manufacturing Back on Track

All Updates & Resources

Limited Scope of OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard Leaves too Many Workers in Danger

Wonk Wednesday: Standing up for Worker’s Rights

BlueGreen Alliance National Energy Transition Policy Framework

PRO Act Crucial to Protecting the Rights of Workers, Growing Thriving, Equitable Economy

BlueGreen Alliance Priorities for Economic Recovery

BlueGreen Alliance Calls for Comprehensive COVID-19 Relief Package

Mitch McConnell, Senate Republicans Vote on another Pitiful COVID-19 Relief Package

House Passes another Covid-19 Relief Package while Senate Republicans Sit on their Hands

Senate Republicans’ New COVID Package Just as Bad as HEALS

BlueGreen Alliance Calls for Robust COVID-19 Relief Package

COVID-19 Federal Response & Economic Stimulus – BlueGreen Alliance Legislative Priorities

Maine Environmental Organizations Stand in Solidarity with Striking Bath Iron Works Workers