{"id":195,"date":"2009-09-15T13:52:25","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T12:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/?p=195"},"modified":"2009-11-26T09:15:05","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T09:15:05","slug":"usa-green-jobs-could-mean-more-union-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/2009\/09\/15\/usa-green-jobs-could-mean-more-union-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"US green jobs could mean more union jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Mario Ciardelli, a member of Electrical Workers (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibew.org\/\">IBEW<\/a>) Local 683 in Columbus, Ohio, the issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aflcio.org\/issues\/jobseconomy\/thesolutions_goodjobs.cfm\">green jobs<\/a> is important because it could mean new jobs for workers with skills in electrical work.<\/p>\n<p>Ciardelli was one of the 80 people who attended a breakout forum on \u201cBuilding a Green Jobs Economy from The Ground Up\u201d at the AFL-CIO\u2019s 26th<sup> <\/sup><a href=\"http:\/\/http\/www.aflcio.org\/aboutus\/thisistheaflcio\/convention\/2009\/index.cfm\">Constitutional Convention<\/a>\u00a0this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A report on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.aflcio.org\/2009\/09\/14\/green-jobs-could-mean-more-union-jobs\/\">AFL-CIO Now blog<\/a><a title=\"Edit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/rearrange?blogID=3378369796100689438&amp;widgetType=Feed&amp;widgetId=Feed2&amp;action=editWidget\" target=\"configFeed2\"> <\/a>says\u00a0IBEW recently launched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibew.org\/WorkingGreen\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Working Green<\/a>, a new section on its website featuring the latest news about the union\u2019s role in the green revolution for members, contractors and others looking to break into the new energy economy.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->IBEW is <a href=\"http:\/\/http\/blog.aflcio.org\/2009\/05\/28\/ibew-training-program-preparing-for-green-future\/\">aggressively training and preparing<\/a>\u00a0its members to help transform the nation\u2019s struggling economy through a range of environmental investments in green technology, energy efficiency and renewable energy.<\/p>\n<p>Ciardelli says the new green jobs are not new jobs to IBEW members\u2014they merely require new equipment and processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Mario Ciardelli, a member of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 683 in Columbus, Ohio, the issue of green jobs is important because it could mean new jobs for workers with skills in electrical work. Ciardelli was one of the 80 people who attended a breakout forum on \u201cBuilding a Green Jobs Economy from The Ground [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[8,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}