Labor & Employment Law

Apollo Alliance Honors AFL-CIO?s Baugh

By James Parks

Bob Baugh

The Apollo Alliance?s Right Stuff Award honors outstanding individuals whose work exemplifies the group?s mission to catalyze the new clean energy economy. Last night in San Francisco, Bob Baugh, executive director of the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Council,  joined the list of Right Stuff honorees whose work is creating a new green economy.  

The Alliance said Baugh received the award because:

As leader of the AFL-CIO?s manufacturing policy and legislative initiatives, Bob has had a life-long commitment to labor and the environment and has never believed in the false choice between jobs and the environment.

Baugh was honored along with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.); Chandra Brown, president of United Streetcar, which produced the first American-made streetcar in nearly 60 years; and Teresa Sanchez, who directs the Green Retrofit and Workforce Program for the city of Los Angeles. Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D) will deliver the keynote address.

Said Cathy Calfo, the Alliance?s executive director:

These four honorees have directly affected the lives of individuals and communities around the country and they are each steadfast supporters of the Apollo Alliance in making the case for the economic benefits of a clean energy economy. We are inspired by their dedication and proud to honor them this year at the Right Stuff Awards Dinner.

Inspired by the Apollo space program, the Apollo Alliance created a coalition of labor, business, environmental and community leaders to catalyze a clean energy revolution that will put millions of Americans to work in a new generation of high-quality, green-collar jobs.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on November 16, 2010 (boomark / email).