Environmental organizations Oil Change International, Friends of the Earth,350.org, and Greenpeace endorse Representative Andy Levin (D-Michigan) for President-Elect Joe Biden’s Labor Secretary.
该组织在11月24日给拜登政府的一封信中辩称,莱文众议员是“致力于您的愿景,能够将劳动和环境运动汇集在一起实施它的人”Politico reports.
Levin is anoriginal cosponsorof the Green New Deal. After the World Food Programme赢得了2020年诺贝尔和平奖, 他在一份声明中写道that it is essential to return food to the center of the conversation, emphasizing the importance of focusing on food insecurity in COVID-19 relief efforts: “These challenges are massive, but we know how to address them. We need to center living wages everywhere and empower working people and small farmers, so that they can provide for their families and communities.”
莱文(Levin)是前服务雇员国际联盟(SEIU)组织者,并于1995年至2006年担任国家AFL-CIO的助理主任。在密歇根州,他在2008年帮助制定了绿色工作计划,2009年的《绿色工作》报告以及密歇根州绿色流动联盟学院(MAGMA),该学院培训了失业者和现任工程师,以使汽车充电。
While labor unions across the U.S. have mixed support for clean energy, those calling for Levin’s nomination cite his experience bridging the gap between organized labor unions and clean energy initiatives while bolstering workers’ rights.
绿色和平指标莱文(Levin)在2020年11月的认可声明中扮演联盟建设者以及环境冠军的工作:“能够解决我们目前面临的许多相互危机的大胆政策也可以创造数百万个好工会工作。但是,如果我们不正确,我们会冒着重复失败的大公司剧本的风险,这些工作加强了不平等和剥削。”
Collin Rees,Inter International的高级活动家,国际机构told Politico, “[Levin] has a long record of fighting for working people, and understands the climate imperative but knows the transition won’t happen without proper buy-in and support.”
列文的许多举措都集中在气候和基础设施的交汇处。2011年,他创立了Levin Energy Partners LLC,旨在帮助塑造密歇根州的能源未来,以及Slian&Green Michigan,这是一个为清洁能源建设改善提供资金的全州市场。该计划帮助建造所有者发起了reported US$17.9 million in clean energy projectsin 2018.
Levin has worked on legislation including the National Labor Relations Act, the proposed TEAM Act, the Federal Transit’s Act, and the Fair Labor Standards Act. His “No Worker Left Behind” initiative in Michigan helped more than 160,000 unemployed and underemployed workers go back to school during the Great Recession.
In February 2020, Levin and Green New Deal author Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) introduced legislation to create a system of electric vehicle charging stations across the country, named the电动汽车自由法.
Levin’s clean-energy experience meets President-elect Biden’s proposed “清洁能源革命。”即将到来的政府在未来10年内在清洁能源和环境司法计划中承诺联邦投资1.7万亿美元。
“At this moment of profound crisis, we have the opportunity to build a more resilient, sustainable economy—one that will put the United States on an irreversible path to achieve net-zero emissions, economy-wide, by no later than 2050,” the Biden-Harris transition team writes, noting that the opportunity can create “millions of good-paying jobs that provide workers with the choice to join a union and bargain collectively with their employers.”
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