Opinion: Jay Inslee wants to save the planet and unions at the same time
Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington state. By Paul Waldman Paul Waldman Opinion writer covering politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer May 16 at 12:54 PM Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee just unveiled what he calls the Evergreen Economy Plan, a blueprint for significant new investments in infrastructure, clean technology and green jobs.
“As far as I can tell, I’m the first candidate running for president in 2020 who has put a major emphasis on restoring collective bargaining rights,” he told me.“We have two existential threats to the health of our society,” he said. “One is the climate crisis and the other is massive income inequality and the fact that half the people in the country haven’t had a raise for about twenty years.”
But on promoting unions, you’ll hit a wall of GOP opposition. Republicans and their corporate allies have invested decades and untold sums of money in destroying collective bargaining in the United States. Since 1983, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics began collecting data, overall union membership has been cut in half, and private-sector membership has fallen by almost two-thirds.
A key part of the rhetoric that sustains that war on unions is the idea that workers have to choose between representation and having a job at all, and that as a society we have to choose between economic growth and treating people with dignity on the job.
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