BlueGreen Alliance | “The Job’s Not Done” Tour Visits Springfield, MA

“The Job’s Not Done” Tour Visits Springfield, MA

A bus tour highlighting the potential to create good American jobs by passing comprehensive clean energy and climate change legislation in the U.S. Senate stopped in Springfield today.

August 31, 2010

Union Members Continue Cross-Country Tour to Urge Action on Clean Energy Jobs

SPRINGFIELD, MA – A bus tour highlighting the potential to create good American jobs by passing comprehensive clean energy and climate change legislation in the U.S. Senate stopped in Springfield today to urge Senators Kerry and Brown to support action on comprehensive legislation that will create and save millions of American, clean energy jobs, including up to 40,000 jobs in Massachusetts.

“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 Bob Wilson, Business Manager for IBEW Local 7. “We have a solution right at our fingertips — we can create good jobs here in Massachusetts with clean energy.”

The Job’s Not Done tour is traveling to 17 states — with more than 30 stops along the way — and features 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.

“Instead of importing clean energy technologies, we should develop and manufacture the technology to harness American energy here at home,” said Leon Weeks, a member of USW Local 5965 out of Freeport, Michigan. “We can’t afford to let other countries like China take the millions of jobs that could be created in America by transitioning to clean energy.”

The tour will continue to Concord, New Hampshire, through Richmond, Virginia on September 3. 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 Tina Clarke of the Massachusetts Climate Action Network and 350.org.