NEW YORK, NY – New York-The following statement on today’s Senate Energy Committee hearing on job creation and energy efficiency,including the Building Star program(S. 3079), can be attributed to Mike Fishman, President of 32BJ SEIU the largest buildings service workers union in the country:
“With nearly 40 percent of our country’s greenhouse gas emissions coming from buildings, strengthening financial incentives for building owners to make our buildings more efficient, will create jobs, protect our environment and give a boost to the economy.”
32BJ’s Thomas Shortman Training Fund launched “Green Supers,” an innovative green building initiative to train superintendents and resident managers to become energy efficient building operators. Green Supers is funded in part by a $2.8 million dollar American Reinvestment and Recovery Act grant from the U.S. Department of Labor. For more information: www.1000supers.com
With more than 120,000 members in eight states, 32BJ is the largest building service workers union in the country.
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updated 3/11/2010
