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August 10, 2025 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
2025-08-10T16:00:00-07:00
2025-08-10T18:00:00-07:00
Green Sunday: Just Transition: A Real-Life Story, In Our Own Backyard
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Meeting ID: 854 4920 3697
For years, many in the labor and environmental justice movements have been discussing and debating how to transition from the fossil fuel (and military) sectors of the economy to socially constructive industry, without creating major unemployment for the workers impacted or disruption to the communities in which they are located.
Most often these debates are in very general terms (with few exceptions, such as the Lucas firm in the UK) but now we see a concrete plan in our own region, with great possibility of implementation.
Tonight we will hear from two labor leaders directly involved in the Contra Costa Refinery Transition Plan: Josh Anijar, a leader of the Contra Costa Central Labor Council, and Tracy W. Scott, of United Steel Workers, Local 5, the union which represents workers in these refineries.
Joshua Anijar started his career at the Florida AFL-CIO in 2007 trying to stop the rising tide of fascism that took over the sunshine state. After the 2012 election, Anijar was offered a position with the AFL-CIO where he worked on campaigns, organizational restructuring and leadership development. In 2019, Anijar became the executive director of the Contra Costa Labor Council, a federation of 85 unions. Anijar,is a member of IATSE 122 and Teamsters 665. Anijar graduated from Arizona State and from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst with a masters in Labor Studies. Josh is a lover of science fiction, live music and lives in the Bay Area with his wife.
Tracy W. Scott was hired in 1981 at the Chevron Richmond Refinery as a process Operator and worked for 10 years in the Hydroprocessing department. He moved to Tosco in Martinez in 2000. His career consisted of being an oil industry Process Operator along with being an Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers/USW (United Steel Workers) union member. Tracy worked to become a OCAW/USW Union Steward Worker Committee Member, ending with his serving for the last 6 years of his career as USW Local 5’s President.
Tracy has spent his career advocating for Worker rights and improved Process Safety Management for the Oil Industry for the benefit of the members of his Union, community members living along the fenceline and the environment, by reducing Refinery system failures through regulations promoting more responsible safe operation of Petroleum and Renewable Fuels facilities.
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