Steelworkers urge low-carbon jobs that also boost labor

A major labor union is embracing calls for an infrastructure package that spurs greener technologies and construction practices while also urging lawmakers to ensure that good-paying traditional jobs are not scuttled without comparable replacements in a low-carbon economy. “We can’t build a climate program that takes high-paying jobs out of the system and replaces them with mediocre jobs,” United Steelworkers President Tom Conway said during a Feb. 25 event hosted by the environment-labor group BlueGreen Alliance. The event, touting prospects...