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Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Vineyard Wind project, the first large-scale offshore wind project in the United States, has been approved for construction and service. Labor activists who have been organizing to ensure that the infrastructure is designed and maintained by union labor joined the Secretaries in making the announcement.
The announcement was made on May 11 by the Department of the Interior, which stated that not only will it be a significant step toward the administration s ambitious offshore wind energy production target of 30 gigawatts by 2030, but it will also create a significant number of jobs in the region.
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Monitoring Labor Unions
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In 2019, Ed Gilliland, the foundation s senior director, told HuffPost, The last time we were monitoring union labor, it was anything like 3% of the total workforce. It was a small group of people. We believe it is still fairly small.
As a result, when the group s survey figures were collected this year, Gilliland came to an unexpected conclusion: more than 10% of the industry has already unionized.
The discovery, combined with a rosy view of employment instead of other energy markets, may be a handy talking point for President Joe Biden as his administration seeks to accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels and hand union organizers their biggest legal boost in decades. It comes only weeks after the country s largest coal-mining union said it would back climate policies that would include new clean-energy opportunities for its members.