Welcome to Teen Vogue's Woke List, a roundup of today's top headlines you have to know. But the Green New Deal has gotten a surprising amount of pushback from certain sectors of the labor movement. In March, the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations’ (AFL-CIO) energy committee released a statement against the proposal, written on behalf of a number of manufacturing unions like the United Steelworkers and United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), which said the provisions it made for potentially impacted workers were not detailed enough, arguing that its goal to transition away from fossil fuels would immediately kill off jobs. Other labor leaders are skeptical of the proposal’s promises to transition workers and "green jobs" guarantees. As Phil Smith, a spokesman for UMWA, told Reuters, “We’ve heard words like ‘just transition’ before, but what does that really mean? Our members are worried about putting food on the table.” on our sacred lands. Uplift creates a political space that brings people together from all over the Southwest, connected by the fact that we are all affected one way or another.”4. University divestment campaign organizers "Blackface af. stop giving people the benefit of the doubt. they ain’t deserve it!!" wrote one commenter. "What in the fake melanin lol," another said.
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