Why we work together
- Both the labor and environmental movements have been the targets of a well-coordinated, well-funded attack.
- The gains both communities have made over the past 76 years are being eroded. Our rights to collectively bargain, have a decent paying job and retirement, live and work in a clean and healthy environment and exercise our democratic rights are being attacked and dismantled.
- We have many things that bind us together including our common commitment to a clean and healthy environment; an effective and functioning democracy; workplace health and safety; the creation of good, clean jobs that provide decent wages and benefits; the rights of workers to bargain and organize collectively; the need to address climate change and toxic pollutants; and our obligation to create economically and environmentally sustainable communities.
These are unprecedented times and they demand unprecedented and bold actions. We can no longer conduct business as usual or continue to act in isolation from one another. As Benjamin Franklin once said “We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”
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For more information about our work together, contact:
Kenneth Peres
Communications Workers of America
kperes@cwa-union.org
Margrete Strand
Sierra Club
margrete.strand@sierraclub.org