sophia reuss
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@climatejobs // opinions my own
"There is a great deal of suffering in the US. The Census Bureau estimates that 36M Americans live under the absurdly low level of income known as the poverty line. And about 30M Americans who work at full-time jobs don’t make what’s called a living wage." nytimes.com/2025/07/14/opi…
"Any bill that halts billions of dollars of infrastructure and energy investments is a direct threat to the futures and livelihoods of workers across the country." @GoIUPAT newsweek.com/senate-must-re…
Read our General President @Jimmy_iupat in @Newsweek about the need to maintain job-creating tax credits in the budget bill. These federal investments have put thousands of people to work and also helped forge the way for U.S. energy independence. newsweek.com/senate-must-re…
“The new clean energy jobs that are coming to our community need to be as good as the coal jobs were, with family-supporting wages and good benefits. I have hope that we can get there due to the historic clean energy investments…” detroitnews.com/story/opinion/…
“The Trenton Channel Power Plant offered me and my family generations of good-paying jobs. I hope the investments made through the Inflation Reduction Act extend similarly fulfilling opportunities to the next generation of workers.” detroitnews.com/story/opinion/…
"If this transition doesn’t result in good, unionised jobs, and if energy communities are left on the scrapheap, then more and more people will be attracted by the siren voice of climate denial." @GMB_union @ProspectUnion mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
UPDATE 🚨 I just filed an amendment to stop the entire bill in its tracks if any provision would result in workforce reductions, diminished job opportunities, or adverse impacts on collective bargaining rights.
The NYC CLC today with broad and overwhelming support proudly endorsed Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani for Mayor of New York City following his victory in last week’s Democratic primary.
"What does a human slowly going insane look like to a corporation? It looks like an additional monthly user." nytimes.com/2025/06/13/tec…
Famously, when Josh Shapiro removed all obstacles to repairing I-95 the one thing he kept was union labor. It wasn't an obstacle to getting the job done in 12 days.
Josh Barro: "When I look at policies in New York that stand in the way of Abundance, very often if you look under the hood, you eventually find a labor union at the end that's the driver"
“Lookit – when you talk about the [Inflation Reduction Act] that has done nothing but create jobs for the blue collar working man in not just our state but around the nation. Here in Michigan, it almost went from zero to sixty in 10 seconds." heatmap.news/plus/the-fight…
Today, union workers made the case: federal energy investments are working for Maine’s working families. Watch 📷 youtube.com/watch?v=ibEGUe…
"Lookit – when you talk about the IRA that has done nothing but create jobs for the blue collar working man in not just our state but around the nation. Here in Michigan, it almost went from zero to sixty in 10 seconds." @MRCCUnion via @heatmap_news heatmap.news/plus/the-fight…
Our very own Pat Devaney of @ILAFLCIO on why now is the time to double down on investing in clean energy, not reverse course chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/20…
Hear from James Harrison, third generation @The_UWUA member, about how federal clean energy incentives are turning the coal-fired power plant that he, his father, and his grandfather all worked at into the region's largest battery storage facility. ⬇️
Coalition of Colorado unions hopes to tackle climate change and spur higher-paying jobs at the same time trib.al/5LhzhaO
We are proud to unveil “Colorado's Clean Energy Jobs Path,” a report created in partnership with @cornellilr’s Climate Jobs Institute that provides a pathway to address the climate crisis while creating a clean, equitable, and worker-centered economy. ilr.cornell.edu/sites/default/…