Michigan Climate Jobs
Building an Affordable Clean Energy Future for All.
OUR MISSION
Michigan is a driver of innovation, and our unions are the drivers of prosperity that built the middle class. Today, we are at an inflection point – the impacts of the climate crisis are disrupting our working families’ security, health, and freedom. From extreme temperatures impacting students’ ability to attend school, to fiercer storms flooding our communities, to our aging infrastructure failing far more often because of climate change, we must continue Michigan’s path to an affordable clean energy future at a scale science demands.
Michigan Climate Jobs was formed to ensure labor’s voice is helping lead our clean energy transition to combat the climate crisis, build clean and renewable energy with good paying union careers, and protect what we love most about our state – our water, our air, and the outdoor spaces and activities we love.
Michigan Climate Jobs is a coalition of labor unions dedicated to building a worker-centered clean energy future by advancing good union careers, educating our communities on climate policy, and promoting science-based solutions that ensure economic and environmental justice for all working families. We believe in a future that protects workers and the planet.
OUR PLAN
Michigan Climate Jobs Blueprint for an Equitable Clean Energy Future
We’re proud to partner with Cornell University’s Climate Jobs Institute on a new report that details how Michigan can develop a clean energy economy that delivers for working families. We will ensure that growing our clean energy economy is built with union workers, and that working families have a seat at the table when decisions are made. Our blueprint also focuses on ensuring safe, healthy, and efficient places to learn for Michigan’s children. Modernizing Michigan’s public schools with energy efficiency and renewable energy done with union labor will create safe and healthy learning spaces for students and working conditions for teachers and school employees, while also helping our public schools save money on energy costs over the long term.
Workers are builders of solutions, not casualties of change.
Michigan families are struggling to make ends meet due to rising inflation and energy costs. Clean and renewable energy built with strong labor standards will drive more reliable and affordable energy while creating good union careers for Michiganders.
Building more clean and renewable energy will help make our energy infrastructure more reliable, mitigating power outages while generating power here in Michigan will provide more energy security for working families.
If we want to build a Michigan that works for future generations of working families, we need a climate jobs blueprint that is worker-led, education focused, and protects our communities from the impacts of climate change.
That is why we worked with The Climate Jobs Institute at Cornell University to create our Michigan Climate Jobs Blueprint for an Equitable Clean Energy Future
Our public schools are the epicenter of our future.
Modern, efficient, healthy and safe schools are necessary for our children to thrive and become the future climate jobs workers and leaders Michigan will need into the future.
We believe in a clean energy future for the Great Lakes State that protects our water, our air, and the outdoor activities we love and enjoy. This is our way of life which is tied to both jobs and combating the impacts of the climate crisis.
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We also believe that an equitable clean energy future creates access to opportunity. It means real pathways into middle-class union careers for women, workers of color, and all Michiganders.
Equity also means building a clean energy future that creates healthy and safe communities, especially those that have been hit the hardest by the impacts of the climate crisis.