CFT Climate Justice Agenda

Core tenets of the CFT Climate Justice Agenda

• Engage our members and the community about labor’s role in advocating
  for tangible solutions to the climate crisis that simultaneously strengthen our middle class.
• Let our members know that good green jobs don’t kill construction projects, but rather can actually increase economic opportunity.
• Work to ensure a just transition for working people by insisting that those who might be displaced are retrained for the new economy, and that the green economy must create career union opportunities.
• Build and sustain real partnerships with the local environmental movement and community groups committed to economic and environmental justice.
• Push for bold new political and policy initiatives that effectively address economic inequality and climate change.
• Ensure that candidates’ positions on climate justice are part of CFT’s evaluation for endorsement in political races.
• Insist that we work towards ending all of our retirement systems’ investments in fossil fuels and other commercial enterprises that are contributing to catastrophic climate change.
• Promote legislation that moves us toward sustainability and climate justice.

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