By staff - UAW Local 6, August 2025
California’s economy is not working for the working class, and it’s not working for our planet.
Billionaires are raking in record profits, while millions struggle to meet their basic needs. For most California workers, a living wage job is hard to find, and climate change is sending the state’s high cost-of-living sky-rocketing even higher.
It’s time for California to embrace a bold new economic strategy to create tens of thousands of new union jobs, rapidly slash greenhouse gas emissions, and drive down energy costs for working class communities.
The following report is a rallying cry from organized labor for a pro-worker green industrial policy that empowers the state to shape growth for the greatest public good.
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