Just Transition Insights, Issue #27, 03/04/2024
[Editorial Note: We have been moving our platform to a new host to enhance user experience so apologies for a slight delay in the newsletter, and any minor hiccups in data availibility in the very near term. Please send us ideas and feedback!] Leading Off: A Transition Authority In Oz—Principles We noted last year the […]
Just Transition Insights, Issue #26, 01/29/2024
[Editorial Note: Quick reminder for 2024: to bring our readers the most in-depth analysis and comprehensive information from around the globe curated by our small staff, we have moved to a monthly newsletter schedule. Please send us ideas and feedback!] Leading Off: Auto Workers Just Transition Progress (Part 1) While the United Auto Workers’ strike […]
Just Transition Insights, Issue #23, 10/30/2023
[Editorial Note: To bring our readers the most in-depth analysis and comprehensive information from around the globe curated by our small staff, we’ve decided, for the time being, to publish our newsletter monthly. Please send us ideas and feedback!] Leading Off: An EV Battery Plant Might Show The Way We’ve taken the position many times […]
Just Transition Insights, Issue #21, 09/18/2023
Leading Off: The Sketchy “Every Reasonable Effort” Standard We have an iron-clad guideline for parsing Just Transition plans, not to mention life in general: read the damn details. The fancy slogans or promises for a Just Transition are alluring. But, what will matter to workers’ futures are the boring specifics, buried in often mind-numbingly boring […]
Just Transition Insights, Issue #20, 08/28/2023
[Editorial note: A reminder that we are publishing on a monthly basis during the U.S. summer months, returning to our regular schedule in September] Leading Off: French Auto Workers Ask—What Is The Future For The Car? [On May 24th, a gathering took place in France, bringing together the main French workers federation, the Confédération Générale […]
Just Transition Insights, Issue #18, 06/26/2023
[Editorial note: We will be publishing on a monthly basis during the U.S. summer months and will return to our regular schedule in September] Leading Off: Making EVs Work For American Workers We were stuck by the news last week of a massive loan extended by the U.S. government to Ford to set-up three battery […]
Just Transition Insights, Issue #15, 05/08/2023
Leading Off: Big Leap Forward In Oz Back in January, we discussed the creation of a taskforce in Australia that would eventually lead to the setting up of a Just Transition scheme. Rapidly, in relative terms to Just Transition efforts globally, the effort has now taken a major leap forward. On May 5th, the Australian […]
Just Transition Insights, Issue #9, 02/13/2023
Leading Off: Greene County—Canary In the Coal Mine It’s a bit of a cliche, we acknowledge , to use the “canary in the coal mine” slogan—but, here, it actually fits. As our regular readers know, in these spaces, when we speak about the need for a “high bar” Just Transition, we always emphasize to keep […]
Just Transition Insights, Issue #8, 01/30/2023
Leading Off: Tax Dollars For Workers, Or For Profitable Companies? In our last issue, we touched on the question of the poor use of public money when it comes to economic development, which obviously is at the heart of how to clinch a “high bar” Just Transition for workers—without economic development that values good-paying jobs, […]
Just Transition Insights, Issue #7, 01/16/2023
Leading Off: Red Flag—Mercedes Benz, MN8 & Ionity A repository of future jobs in the so-called “green economy” is certainly in the electric vehicle (EV) industry and, as important, the offshoot products to support EVs. Chief among the support system will naturally be charging stations because, obviously, you have to have enough power to be […]