{"id":9297,"date":"2025-04-21T07:44:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/?p=9297"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:44:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:44:48","slug":"its-earth-day-the-uaw-founded-and-funded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/its-earth-day-the-uaw-founded-and-funded\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Earth Day &#8211; The UAW Founded and Funded!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Earth Day.\u00a0 The Labor Network for Sustainability looks back in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labor4sustainability.org\/post\/earth-day-labor-and-me\/\">Earth Day, Labor, and Me<\/a>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe UAW was by far the largest contributor to the first Earth Day, and its support went beyond the merely financial.\u00a0 It printed and mailed all our materials at its expense \u2014 even those critical of pollution-belching cars.\u00a0 Its organizers turned out workers in every city where it has a presence.\u00a0 And, of course, Walter then endorsed the Clear Air Act that the Big Four were doing their damnedest to kill or gut.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some people may be surprised to learn that a labor union played such a significant role in the emergence of the modern environmental movement.\u00a0 When they think of organized labor, they think of things like support for coal and nuclear power plants and opposition to auto emissions standards.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/its-earth-day-the-uaw-founded-and-funded\/earth-5766860_1280\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9298\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9298\" src=\"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/earth-5766860_1280-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/earth-5766860_1280-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/earth-5766860_1280-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/earth-5766860_1280-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/earth-5766860_1280.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(image by Ba2 design on Pixabay)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Earth Day.\u00a0 The Labor Network for Sustainability looks back in Earth Day, Labor, and Me&#8230;. \u201cThe UAW was by far the largest contributor to the first Earth Day, and its support went beyond the merely financial.\u00a0 It printed and mailed all our materials at its expense \u2014 even those critical of pollution-belching cars.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1127],"class_list":["post-9297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labor-laws","tag-earth-day"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9300,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9297\/revisions\/9300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}