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 #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 #16, 05/29/2023
Leading Off: The Future For Auto Workers—The Good & Bad We will be featuring in the very near future global insights into the future for auto workers. We have two aspects to touch on in this issue. The Good: Our regular readers may recall that this past December, we featured a story about a tie-up […]