Union Members, Environmentalists Continue Cross-Country Bus Tour to Demand Senate Action on Clean Energy Jobs

Detroit, MI – A bus tour that highlights the potential to create good American jobs by passing comprehensive clean energy and climate change legislation in the U.S. Senate stopped in Detroit today and Levin to support action on comprehensive legislation that will create and save millions of American, clean energy jobs, including up to 42,000 jobs in Michigan.

“Nearly 1 out of 10 Americans are still out of work and we need action now to create and preserve millions of jobs across the country,” said Mark Gaffney, President of AFL-CIO in Michigan. “We have a solution right at our fingertips — we can create good jobs here in Michigan with clean energy.”

The Job’s Not Done tour will travel to 17 states — with more than 30 stops along the way — and feature clean energy workers, union members and environmentalists urging Senate action on important job-creating clean energy legislation. Workers on The Job’s Not Done Tour worry that China will take the millions of potential jobs that will result from the transition to a clean energy economy.

“Comprehensive clean energy and climate change legislation will put America back on the path to economic success — revitalizing current industries and creating new ones, establishing the United States as the undisputed leader in clean energy technologies, and creating good American clean energy jobs now,” said Vance Giroux, a member of USW Local 9115 in Mt. Iron, MN.

The tour will continue to Lansing and wraps up on September 3 in Richmond, Virginia. For more information, visit www.bluegreenalliance.org.

“This tour is a reminder that millions of people are out of work, and clean energy is the best way to jumpstart the American economy. We need the Senate to get back to work and get the job done — for our families, the economy, our environment, and the future,” said Jim Harrison, President of UWUA Local 223.