George Miranda, international vice president of the Teamsters Union speaks out against climate change. Writing in the Huffington Post as part of a special series on climate change, which coincides with the UN’s climate summit and climate demonstrations taking place this month, he says …
“Doing something about it is not all about sacrifice. Building a clean energy economy and making our communities and infrastructure more resilient give us the opportunity to rebuild our economy. As rising temperatures have attacked our environment, our economy has lost good jobs and replaced them with poverty jobs. The two problems are connected – each stemming from policies that put profit ahead of people – and the solution is the same.”
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The Teamsters took part in the people’s climate march yesterday in New York, along with the ATU, TWU, SEIU, CUPE, Unifor, ITUC and ITF representatives. ITF affiliates also took part in marches in other cities around the world.
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