Clean Energy Jobs are topic for Laborvision

Labor, environmental, and low-income people's groups have come together to support a program of "clean energy jobs". Investing in clean energy technologies generates jobs in manufacturing, reduces greenhouse gas emissions, and provides jobs for the long-term unemployed.

Guest Gerald Nickelson is the president of the IUE-CWA local at CG Power Systems in Franklin County that makes transformers for wind turbines. Gerald reports that the factory is hiring over one hundred new workers, and that the clean energy business is booming. Melissa Hope of the Sierra Club points out that environmentalists and labor can unite to promote public investment in clean energy technology. Finally, Vamadu Sheriff of Better Family Life discusses a new program to train the long-term unemployed for new clean energy jobs.

St. Louis City viewers can watch this program on Charter Channel 21 (St Louis City) at:
8 p.m. Monday, May 3 & 10
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 5 & 12
7 p.m. Thursday, May 6 & 13
3:30 p.m. Saturday, May 8 & 15

Laborvision is a public-affairs television program on which local guests discuss important public policy issues. To contact producer John Hickey with questions or show ideas, email him at laborvision@gmail.com .