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ASJE Working Groups
ASJE has four working groups Restoration Jobs, Global Trade, Energy, and Rogue Corporations to forward the mission of creating a “world where nature is protected, the worker is respected and unrestrained corporate power is rejected.” Each of the working groups is comprised of ASJE members and board members, with two co-chairs heading up each group. Volunteers are encouraged to join a working group.
Restoration Jobs
The ASJE’s Restoration Jobs Working Group is dedicated to forwarding a "restoration economy" that provides stable, family-wage employment with benefits to workers while restoring our degraded environments.
The current focus of the Restoration Jobs Working Group is to bring workers and environmentalists together on the North Coast of California to pursue opportunities for high quality jobs in forest, fisheries, and watershed restoration. This group is committed to the "high-road" approach to restoration which means training workers in restoration practices and paying living wages and benefits. (more on this working group)
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Global Trade
The Alliance's Working Group on Global Trade has focused on educating the public, local officials, and Congressional delegations about the dangers that trade agreements pose for all of life on this planet. ASJE's well-received report Trade in Services clearly conveys the importance of stopping the FTAA.
The Working Group developed a "yardstick" that community groups can use to evaluate how a proposed trade agreement would impact them and was made available nationally. In Oregon, we prepared and published fact sheets on the effect the proposed agreements would have on specific services. (more on this working group)
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Energy
The ASJE Energy Working Group seeks to engage labor and environmental activists in promoting mutually beneficial approaches to the challenges of energy issues and climate change.
The Energy Working Group has discussed several possibilities for joint blue/green organizing campaigns covering a wide range of topics. Areas where labor and environmentalists can find common ground include: the energy economy, state budgets, economic development policy, deregulation and privatization, toxins and the affects on worker health. (more on this working group)
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Rogue Corporations
ASJE was initially forged out of an unlikely bond over the unfair environmental and labor practices of the Maxxam Corporation. Maxxam was the initial "rogue corporation." ASJE promoted public awareness of alternatives to unsustainable logging by Pacific Lumber in Northern California and still uses the Maxxam example to educate the public about the common threats to workers and the environment from shortsighted corporate policies.
The Working Group published the "Rogue Corporations " booklet which exposes the practices of corporations whose business practices adversely affect both workers and the environment. ASJE supports appropriate campaigns to address these abuses. (more on this working group)
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