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The Vermont Sierra Club, 350VT, and the Vermont Iron Workers Local 7 are working together to fight climate change and pollution through building a renewable energy future. Increasing our green energy portfolio will also build a green economy.
But this green economy must mean a good economy with middle-class jobs for working Vermonters. Now we need you to take action to make sure that green jobs go to Vermonters.
Too often, developers use non-union workers from out of state to construct the renewable energy projects that were supposed to serve Vermonters. This is not good enough. With unemployment high, and our economy still in crisis, we need to build green and sustainable jobs for Vermonters. Keeping these jobs and our money in Vermont would be a huge boost to our state and our local communities.
Whenever a wind farm is built, whenever a large solar complex is erected, whenever a biomass installation is constructed, we need to know that these construction and continuing maintenance jobs are in fact Vermont jobs; the kind that pay liveable wages and provide good benefits.
Renewable energy projects are the future. Will that future be one of economic prosperity or poverty for Vermont’s working families? We, environmentalists and union members, choose economic prosperity — and you can too by taking action today.
Take action, by clinking on the below link, to bring green jobs to Vermont!
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Please join us in working with the Governor and Public Service Board to mandate that Certificates of Public Good should only be issued for renewable energy projects when the developer agrees to hire local, and pay family sustainable wages with benefits. Anything less perpetuates poverty, unemployment, and scarcity among our friends, families, neighbors, and fellow Vermonters.
Thank you for everything you do for Vermont’s environment and working families.
David Van Deusen
Sierra Club — Vermont
Michael Morelli
VT Iron Workers Local 7
David Stember
350VT
Take action, by clinking on the below link, to bring green jobs to Vermont!