The green support for the union marks a relatively new development between two Democratic-aligned factions.
Environmental groups are supporting the labor action, saying it’s needed to ensure that factory workers are included in the transition to a clean economy. | Paul Sancya/AP PhotoEnvironmental groups are lining up on the side of the United Auto Workers against the Big Three — never mind any setbacks for their green energy agenda.
Environmental groups have broadened their missions in recent years to address a range of social problems, including racial and economic issues, in part as an effort to build broader coalitions to support their campaigns to fight climate change and pollution that disproportionately affects minority communities and low-income areas.
Mainstream environmental groups in the 1980s would not have gotten directly involved in labor movement politics, let alone ones that threatened their own environmental priorities, according to people in progressive groups and labor historians. And frequently the two groups have been sharply at odds, as they were over issues such as Biden’s move to block development of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, a project that some construction unions had backed.
UAW President Shawn Fain has repeatedly said the union supports Biden’s electric vehicles push, and he has criticized automakers for closing plants and neglecting job security even as the companies expand production of new models of electric vehicles and opened battery plants.said in a recent statement.
That focus on the long-term success of Biden’s green energy agenda has helped narrow the previous divide between green and labor groups, said Erika Thi Patterson, auto supply chain campaign director for Public Citizen, a group that advocates for progressive environmental and labor policies and helped organize the letter of support. Persuading dozens of other progressive groups to sign was a fairly easy task, Thi Patterson added.
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