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What does a just transition look like on the ground—for workers, apprentices, and communities? In the second episode of Class & Climate, Lindsay Amundsen, Director of Workforce Development at Canada’s Building Trades Unions (CBTU), shares how the labour movement is shaping climate solutions by investing in people.
From empowering underrepresented workers in the trades, to building clean energy infrastructure with union labour, CBTU’s approach to workforce development is grounded in equity and long-term economic resilience. Amundsen makes the case for public investments in training, and for putting workers—especially those in carbon-intensive industries—at the centre of climate planning.
This is the second episode of Class & Climate: Perspectives on a Green Economy, a short series from the Perspectives Journal and the Green Economy Network mapping how climate action can deliver jobs and long-term affordability for workers — while debunking myths that these goals are a zero-sum trade-off with a clean environment.
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