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  • 8 - Green Jobs under the Spotlight

  • Alexander F. Gazmararian, Princeton University, New Jersey, Dustin Tingley, Harvard University, Massachusetts
  • Book:
    Uncertain Futures
    Published online:
    06 July 2023
    Print publication:
    20 July 2023, pp 201-232

  • Summary

    Throughout our surveys and interviews, a common theme emerges: people want jobs that go to workers who live in their communities. So what happens when clean energy jobs are not local jobs? Opposition from communities, unions, and elected officials can ensue. But what can we do? This chapter tells the story of unions in Minnesota – unions that represent both fossil and clean energy workers – that tried not a strategy of darkness and denial but instead a strategy of sunlight and support. They worked with state regulators to have clean energy project proposals commit to disclose to the public how many local workers they hire. We combine this episode with internal union surveys and our surveys of elected officials and the public to show both the promises of transparency but also its limits.