Labor & Employment Law

Register Now for the 2011 Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference

By James Parks

Register now for the 2011 Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference, Feb. 8?10 in Washington, D.C. With unemployment above 9.0 percent for more than 20 months, thousands of union, environmental, business, community and elected leaders will discuss how to create millions of good green jobs across the United States. The conference is the leading forum for sharing ideas and strategies to grow a green economy that creates good jobs, addresses global warming and other environmental problems and preserves America?s economic and environmental security.

Participants at the 2011 conference will focus on how best to put ideas and strategies into practice to build a sustainable economy that creates good jobs across the United States. The conference will highlight state and local initiatives as well as emerging and growing green sectors. Participants will hear about efforts to create a Green Infrastructure Model through smart transportation and urban development, successful work development programs and model partnerships between government, the private sector and local interests.

Click here to register for the conference, here for the conference agenda and here for the workshop schedule.

Now in its fourth year, the Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference has attracted speakers such as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson and numerous members of Congress.

On Feb. 10, Green Jobs Advocacy Day, hundreds of green jobs advocates will head to Capitol Hill to speak with lawmakers about the necessary tools to build a green economy in the United States. For more information, click here.

The conference is being coordinated by the Blue Green Alliance, the partnership of the labor and environmental organizations, which include the USW, Communications Workers of America (CWA), AFT, Utility Workers (UWUA), Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU), the Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on January 12, 2011 (boomark / email).