• Powering the Clean Energy Future: Pro-Worker Solutions for Illinois.

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From wind turbine technicians, solar panel installers and nuclear plant engineers, to security officers, teachers and janitors, Climate Jobs Illinois represents the hundreds of thousands of Illinois union men and women, apprentices and trainees who will help power our way to a carbon-free future.

Our coalition is committed to continuing to advocate for pro-worker, pro-climate policies, including Illinois’ Climate & Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA), which sets the strongest pro-worker provisions and protections in the country.

Learn how labor is leading the way in Illinois to fight climate change, create jobs and build healthier, fairer communities.

Enforcing Pro-Worker Policies

CEJA sets the strongest labor standards in the country, requiring:

  • Project labor agreements on all utility-scale wind and solar projects, and
  • Prevailing wages for non-residential projects.

Creating Equitable Workforce Hubs

Our workforce development initiatives will lift up a new generation of working men and women from communities of color, which suffer disproportionately from the effects of climate change.

Learn more about our work to build a more equitable labor force.

Investing in Carbon Free Healthy Schools

CEJA includes resources to save school districts millions in annual energy costs, decrease building emissions and create thousands of construction jobs for Illinois workers through energy efficient upgrades.

Join our campaign to create healthier classrooms.

“What CEJA proves is that we don’t have to choose between jobs and a clean, better future. We can do both.”

Pat Devaney, Illinois AFL-CIO & Climate Jobs Illinois

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