Work Hard, Breath Easy...

Now doesn't this make good sense? New green/labor alliance :

"Organized labor and environmentalists -- engaged in an on-again-off-again flirtation for years -- may finally be getting to third base.

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Last week, Carl Pope, head of the Sierra Club, and Leo Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers (USW) union, announced the formation of the Blue/Green Alliance, linking the nation's biggest industrial labor union with the nation's largest environmental organization. Their motto: 'Good jobs, a clean environment, and a safer world.'

'The Blue/Green Alliance is one of the most important initiatives undertaken by the environmental movement in decades,' said Pope at the launch event. Gerard said the creation of good jobs requires sound environmental strategy: 'We cannot have one without the other.' "