Labor Secretary Walsh, AFL-CIO Pres. Shuler, Union and Climate Leaders to Participate in Climate Jobs Summit

MEDIA ADVISORY FOR: Tuesday, September 21, 2021

CONTACT: Sophia Reuss, sophia.reuss@cjnrc.org, 917-545-2901

Labor Secretary Walsh, AFL-CIO Pres. Shuler, Union and Climate Leaders to Participate in Climate Jobs Summit

New York, N.Y.—On Tuesday, September 21, the second virtual annual Climate Jobs Summit will convene leaders from the labor and climate movements, policymakers, scientists, academics, and activists to discuss America’s historic opportunity to build a worker-centered clean energy economy. 

Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler, and leaders from the climate movement and unions across the country will discuss how to equitably build the clean energy economy of tomorrow with good union jobs, take climate action at the scale science demands, and address the crisis of extreme inequality. 

The Climate Jobs Summit is a full-day virtual event happening during Climate Week NYC that will also feature leaders from state climate jobs coalitions and discussion of state-level efforts to create millions of good-paying union jobs and combat climate change. 

The agenda can be found on the registration page here.

Speakers include:  

• Vincent Alvarez, President, New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, New York Climate Jobs Coalition
• Chris Shelton, President, Communications Workers of America
• Becky Pringle, President, National Education Association
• Randi Weingarten, President, American Federation of Teachers
• Pat Devaney, Secretary-Treasurer, Illinois AFL-CIO, Climate Jobs Illinois
• Cynthia Phinney, President, Maine AFL-CIO
• Aziz Dehkan, Executive Director and Lead Organizer, Connecticut Roundtable on Climate and Jobs

The Summit is sponsored by the Climate Jobs National Resource Center (CJNRC), the CJNRC Action Fund, Climate Jobs New York (CJNY), the CJNY Education Fund, and the Worker Institute and the Lois Gray Labor Innovation Initiative at Cornell University’s ILR School.

**RSVP here**

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The Climate Jobs National Resource Center (CJNRC) is a national non-profit organization that supports and coordinates a network of union-led climate jobs coalitions united around a shared goal of combating climate change while reversing income inequality.

The Worker Institute at Cornell University engages in research and education on contemporary labor issues, to generate innovative thinking and solutions to problems related to work, economy and society.