The green jobs are coming. Are the unions too?

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02/19/21 • 7 min

Joe Biden has repeatedly said his energy transition plan will create millions of “green, union jobs.” But compared to other sectors of the energy industry, wind and solar have low unionization rates. POLITICO’s Rebecca Rainey and Eric Wolff, on the union leaders’ fears that workers will be left behind.

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Anthony Adragna is an energy reporter for POLITICO and host of POLITICO Energy.
Rebecca Rainey covers labor for POLITICO.
Eric Wolff is an energy reporter for POLITICO.
Carlos Prieto is a Politico podcast producer.
Jenny Ament is the senior producer of POLITICO audio.
Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO audio.

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