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CelloMom On Cars (cellomomoncars@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Sep-2023 01:30:28 UTC CelloMom On Cars

"The strikes and the EV transition in general are hastening a moment of reckoning for the Democratic party. The wealthy coastal progressives who drive the Teslas that represent 60 per cent of all EVs sold in the US often care more about fixing climate change than labour rights. But if the Republican party nominates Trump and he wins, neither the planet nor workers will be safer. "
https://www.ft.com/content/bda59c3b-3038-450d-a0e1-46cd2654a555
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1. The stakes of the US autoworker strike could not be higher | Financial Times
  
  If Joe Biden can’t bridge the gap between management and labour, Donald Trump could be the winner
- CelloMom On Cars (cellomomoncars@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Sep-2023 01:30:27 UTC CelloMom On Cars
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  If you want to avoid climate policy backlash, you must put social justice at the center of your #climate policy.
  Demanding everyone puts heat pumps in their house if they can't afford them invites backlash.
  Asking auto workers to support the EV transition while you don't have their back invites backlash.
  Expecting farmers to suddenly do things differently invites backlash.
  Levying a fee for entering a #ULEZ zone without providing viable alternatives to travel by car invites backlash.
  
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- CelloMom On Cars (cellomomoncars@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Sep-2023 04:23:59 UTC CelloMom On Cars
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  You need to bring everyone along. An example of doing it right:
  When Spain closed down their last coal mines in 2018, they spent €250 million on :
  - early retirement for miners over the age of 48,
  - restorative environmental measures in coal communities
  - retrain coal miners to begin working with safer, more modern green technologies."
  These mines were closed without a fight. (I mean, did you even hear about the closures?)
  https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/with-coal-mines-closing-by-end-of-year-spain-is-spending-millions-to-preserve-miners-livelihood/
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  1. With Most of Their Coal Mines Closing by End of the Year, Spain is Spending Millions to Preserve Miners' Livelihood
    
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    The initiative will benefit hundreds of coal miners who may have otherwise been left behind by the shift towards green energy.
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- zeh (zeh@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 29-Sep-2023 04:24:05 UTC zeh
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  closed without a fight? what do you mean? all those concessions were the result of worker's struggles, massive and combative strikes.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asturian_miners%27_strike_of_2012
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  1. Asturian miners' strike of 2012
    
    The 2012 Asturian miners' strike was an industrial dispute involving more than 8,000 coal miners in the Spanish autonomous community of Asturias. The geographer David Featherstone has described the strike as "one of the most dramatic forms of anti-austerity protest to emerge in the wake of the financial crisis of 2007–08." Background The coal mining industry has played a part in the local economy of the provinces of Asturias and León since the Roman era. The region also has a history of militancy: an uprising in 1934 led by miners took place but was crushed by General Franco; and a miners' strike which began in Asturias in 1962 involved nearly 500,000 workers and was the first time under Franco that a workers' movement had won significant concessions from the state. Miners also engaged in protests against privatization and industrial restructuring in the 1980s and 1990s. In 2010 the miners were successful in another dispute, which resulted in legislation supporting the coal industry. The Spanish coal industry had been in decline since the 1990s as subsidies were phased out, however, resulting in a...
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