North America’s Building Trades Unions, a group of 14 construction unions worldwide with more than 3 million members, has called on policymakers to ensure that clean energy jobs will have the same wages, benefits, workforce training and labor standards as the oil and gas jobs workers will be transitioning from, according to the Houston Chronicle.
“We’re not climate change deniers. We’re not opposed to renewables,” NABTU President Sean McGarvey said. “But we can’t transition into careers where people take a 50 percent pay cut.”