Posts tagged Environmental Defense Fund
Clean Water Action begins nationwide unionization effort; Ann Arbor, East Lansing staff included
April 15, 2026 // The unionization effort is supported by two existing unions in The NewsGuild-CWA, the Minnesota Newspaper and Communications Guild Local 37002 and the Pacific Media Workers Guild Local 39521. Jen Schlicht, a member of the Organizing Committee for the Clean Water Guild, wrote that the decision to launch a unionization effort followed similar movements by other environmental organizations, including the Environmental Defense Fund and the National Resources Defense Council, as well as the “transitional momentum” of the organization’s leadership shift from former CEO Jeff Carter to the new president, Lynn Thorp.
Electric vehicle jobs are booming in the anti-union South. UAW is worried
September 22, 2023 // “The auto industry’s move south hangs over these talks because now only a minority of workers are in unionized assembly plants,” said Stephen Silvia, a professor at American University and author of “The UAW’s Southern Gamble: Organizing Workers at Foreign-Owned Vehicle Plants.” While all of the Big Three’s plants are unionized, not a single plant in the South is unionized. Automakers’ transition to electric vehicles is accelerating these regional trends. Ford and GM are building battery plants below the Mason-Dixon Line, where states have laws that make unionization much harder than in the traditional working-class bastions of the Midwest. UAW leaders and union supporters worry the shift will lower compensation and cut out unions from the auto industry’s future, and they are seeking to address these concerns in talks with the Big Three.