A New Approach to Labor- Environment Coalitions
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The conventional wisdom suggests that blue-green coalitions can be challenging and often dissolve into class tensions that appear to force unions to choose between job security and environmental health. This digest describes the strategies, such as bridge building and constructing a coalition frame based on the precautionary approach, used by coalition leaders to unite different stakeholders with different interests and priorities, in order to achieve their goal.
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