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Amid all the clamour for a green-led recovery from world recession a US report warns that not all the jobs in the emerging environmental sector are necessarily good jobs with attractive pay and conditions.
The report, High Road or Low Road: Job Quality in the New Green Economy, found that jobs in renewable energy and waste management in the US can often pay significantly less than comparable jobs in manufacturing.
Only one of the renewable manufacturing facilities surveyed for the report paid an hourly wage that was sufficient to support a family of four. A quarter of those firms paid wage rates below the levels necessary to meet the basic needs of an adult with one child, the report found.
“Our survey results suggest that wind and solar manufacturing workers earn more than the typical employee at a Wal-Mart store, but it would be a stretch to say that all of them have good jobs,” the report concluded.
It found that pay rates at many wind and solar manufacturers are below the $18.88-per-hour national average for workers in durable goods manufacture. The lowest wage found was $8.25 an hour at a recycling processing plant, while lowest in renewable energy was $11 per hour.
The report was written by Good Jobs First and commissioned by Change to Win, Sierra Club, the Laborers’ International Union (LIU) and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. They called on minimum
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