The following resolution passed at the UAWD Mid-Year General Membership Meeting held on January 30, 2022.
A resolution to add to the following new plank to the UAWD caucus platform:
A sizable portion of our membership work in industries which are significant contributors to greenhouse gasses which are rapidly warming the planet and intensifying alarming changes to our climate. Witness the once in 500 or 1,000 year weather events like Hurricane Ida,and the drought-driven forest fires on the west coast of the USA. We must take a stand and fight for conversion to a fossil-fuels free, renewable energy economy all the while ensuring prosperity for our members and the working class in general. We support converting our industries for the creation of new “green” jobs, beginning with the reopening of closed plants. We support a just transition to production of electric vehicles and a mass transportation system, powered by renewable energy, and components for renewable energy such as solar panels and wind turbines all the while fighting to protect our members’ livelihoods.