Dear Orsan,<br><br>COuld you introduce the history of just transition proposals, documented here in this article, with references at the bottom of the article,<br><br>Really need extra material in the short term, thanks for stepping in if you can. <br>
<br>see <a href="http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/2008/07/12/universalizing-transition-rights-through-guaranteed-income/">http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/2008/07/12/universalizing-transition-rights-through-guaranteed-income/</a><br>
<br><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">One sign that a universal income benefit is on the horizon is
the recent call from United Professionals for �</span><a href="http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/blog/tag/transition-rights/"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Transition
Rights</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">� which parallels labor unions�
�Just Transition Fund� [1].�</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">According to the UP article, Transition Rights are
about �freedom to explore what [job] you want to do next, without
financial devastation.� The principle of the �Just Transition Fund� is
to ensure that workers who lose their jobs due to environmental policies
are not forced to commit �economic suicide.� [2]</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">A Guaranteed Livable Income would universalize
�Transition Fund� principles to extend them to all people�especially
those excluded from formal work [3].</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Hand wringing about where the money would come from for a
guaranteed income (since </span><a href="http://www.livableincome.org/money.htm"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">money</span></a><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"> is a human
invention), or worrying �what if people won�t work,� are only worn-out
excuses (going all the way back to </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthus"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Malthus</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">!)
that allow billions of people to live with the lethal pendulum of
income insecurity dangling daily over their heads � depleting their
health and needlessly shortening their lives. [4]</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">So � It should be simple and obvious for humanity to
choose between the pathetic (because it is avoidable) nightmare of
forcing everyone, including children, to compete for jobs and income, or
the achievable goal of universal income security. [5]</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">References:</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">[1] Just Transition Fund</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">UK Trades Union Congress sponsored document �Green and Fair
Future� documents the history of Just Transition and calls for a JTF in
order to make sure that �all the conditions exist for a genuinely just
transition to a low carbon economy� </span><a href="http://www.tuc.org.uk/economy/tuc-14922-f0.cfm"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">http://www.tuc.org.uk/economy/tuc-14922-f0.cfm</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Canadian Labour Congress 2008 convention: �In creating the
legislative framework for investments and expenditures to deal with
climate change, the Federal government should establish Just Transition
Funds.�� </span><a href="http://www.labourcouncil.ca/CLCgreen.pdf"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">http://www.labourcouncil.ca/CLCgreen.pdf</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">[2] Tony Mazzocchi: �Workers Must Be Compensated Fully If Jobs
Are Lost for Environmental Reasons � We Call This �A Just Transition��,
2000, </span><a href="http://www.kclabor.org/mazzgreen.htm"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">http://www.kclabor.org/mazzgreen.htm</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">�</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Mazzocchi who coined the term �Just Transition� was called the
�Rachel Carson of the American workplace� </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Mazzocchi"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Mazzocchi</span></a></span></p>
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