Labour Unions and Green Transitions in the USA: Contestations and Explanations

This report asks: have US labour unions, declining in numbers and divided on climate policy, adopted any initiatives to address climate change? The goal here is to both outline the deep cleavages with respect to climate policy and to show that the views of unions are more complex and contradictory than the opposition-support dichotomy. In the second part of the report, the author explains the internal and external factors which account for the variability in union responses to climate change and policy, amongst and within unions.