Cohen: Movement Building for Economic Justice and Democracy

At the Good Jobs Green Jobs conference in Atlanta, CWA President Larry Cohen said labor and environmental groups are building a movement to break down the barriers to democracy. Click here or on picture to view his address.

Achieving workers' rights and economic justice, addressing climate change and creating good-paying, sustainable jobs all depend on fixing our broken democracy, CWA President Larry Cohen told participants, including a large group of CWAers, at the Good Jobs Green Jobs conference in Atlanta last week.

Through the Blue Green Alliance, union and environmental allies are building a movement to achieve those goals. "In labor, we realized we alone would not be able to achieve full bargaining and organizing rights for workers," he said. But all of us standing together, 50 million strong, will be heard.

Strong support from environment groups helped turn back the attacks against collective bargaining rights in Ohio and Wisconsin; CWA, in turn, works with the Sierra Club, National Defense Resources Council, and other green groups on building sustainable communities and meeting green energy goals.

CWA is committed to building a movement to break through these barriers to democracy: corporate money in politics, voter suppression, broken Senate rules and a path to legalization for immigrants.

Click here for video from the conference; Cohen's remarks begin at 11:43 in the video.

Following Atlanta, Good Jobs Green Jobs conferences will be held in Los Angeles on March 15-16; Philadelphia, April 3-4; and Detroit, May 10-11. Click here for more information.