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Unions, trades push for 'just transition' bill to protect workers as Massachusetts shifts to clean energy
Summary
Dozens of union representatives and building-trades witnesses asked the Joint Committee to advance H 3475 / S 2276, a bill they say would require registered apprenticeships, prevailing wages, labor peace agreements and just-transition planning to protect fossil-fuel workers and create high-quality clean-energy jobs.
A coalition of unions, building-trades groups and workforce advocates asked the Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy to favorably report H 3475 / S 2276, an act promoting a just transition and clean-energy workforce standards.
John Dunderdell, business manager for Pile Drivers Local 56, said clean-energy projects already under construction — including an offshore wind project he described as "Winyard Wind 1" — will deliver large-scale power and union jobs and must be coupled with state labor standards. "Once completed, this project will deliver over 800 megawatts of power to the New England grid," Dunderdell said, and he described more than 1,500 union jobs created on…
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