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Dear John,

I'm excited to share with you “ Organizing for the Economy We Want [[link removed]] ,” a piece I co-authored with Matt Mayers of Green Workers Alliance [[link removed]] . We were honored to be invited to contribute to a special issue of the organizing journal The Forge on the future of labor. In our article, Matt and I call out the false narratives around green jobs and call for new models of labor organizing to win a green stimulus big enough to take on the twin crises of environmental injustice and economic inequality:

"...by pitting jobs against the environment, the Right has successfully won over white, working-class voters fearful of falling further behind in an economy rigged for the rich. To flip this script, we need to organize those who are doing the vital work of building a just and sustainable economy as well as those who would most benefit from good, green jobs. As organizers, we should focus our campaigns on helping to build this economy, not just fall back on organizing within the constraints set by the pollution elite."

The Green Workers Alliance is a new fiscally-sponsored project of the Partnership for Working Families. Their mission is to bring together workers in a wide range of green jobs to advocate for policies that both fight climate change and increase the number of good, clean jobs. As the fires overtaking the West Coast are demonstrating, time is running out to take significant, radical action on climate change. You can learn more about the Green Workers Alliance on their website [[link removed]] and Twitter [[link removed]] .

The entire issue of The Forge [[link removed]] is an essential read - it's guest-edited by Andrea Dehlendorf of United for Respect and includes brilliance from our friends at Athena, PRA, JWJ, Coworker.org, and more on the future of the labor movement.

Thanks for all you do.

Lauren Jacobs
Executive Director
Partnership for Working Families


P.S. All this month, the Partnership will be focusing on #laboringduringCOVID, exploring what the pandemic has revealed about the American economy and how workers are treated. Join us for our next #laboringduringCOVID [[link removed]] Twitter chat this Wednesday at 1 pm PST, where we’ll talk about California’s Prop 22, an Uber and Lyft-funded ballot initiative that would strip gig workers of their labor rights.

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