A report recently commissioned by the labor federation Change to Win, the Sierra Club, the Laborers International Union of North America, and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters titled High Road or Low Road: Job Quality in the New Green Economy concludes that so-called “green jobs” are not automatically good jobs and concerted effort has to be made to make them so.
Key findings include: 1) Low pay is not uncommon in the “green” workplaces; 2) Wage rates at many wind and solar manufacturing facilities are below the national average for workers employed in the manufacture of durable goods; 3) Some U.S. wind and solar manufacturers have already begun to offshore production of components destined for U.S. markets to low-wage havens such as China and Mexico; and 4) Very few workers at wind and solar manufacturing workplaces identified in the course of our research are covered by collective bargaining agreements.
To view the report, click here.
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