Jim Key President Atomic Energy Workers Council United Steel Workers

<p>“These [nuclear energy jobs] provided good family sustaining wages with good benefits. And a lot of people put their kids through college, bought a home, paid it off and during the sixties, through the eighties, it was one of highest paying jobs in the regions where these [nuclear] plants are located.”</p> <p>Jim Key President Atomic Energy Workers Council </p> <p>Jim Key is the President of the United Steel Workers (USW) Atomic Energy Workers Council (AEWC) and former Vice President At Large of USW Local 8-550, which represents the highly skilled, well trained workers at the Department of Energy (DOE)’s Paducah Federal Enclave Site Reservation in Kentucky.</p> <p>The United Steelworkers Atomic Energy Workers Council consists of presidents and vice presidents from all United Steel Workers local unions that have contracts with DOE across the nation.</p> <p>Learn more at: <a href='https://www.usw.org/union/mission/industries/atomic'>https://www.usw.org/union/mission/industries/atomic</a>.</p> <p>During this conversation we discuss:</p> <ul><li style="font-weight:400;">The United Steelworkers Atomic Energy Workers Council;</li> <li style="font-weight:400;">How the nuclear energy economy supports high skilled, high wage union jobs;</li> <li style="font-weight:400;">The 2019 conference in Turkey that brought together <a href='https://www.industriall-union.org/nuclear-workers-building-union-power?fbclid=IwAR1_1yAsF2MYW9TbR0mPK1xxY-_6trTf-YeipQJCDH9np0ROq0Pw8Tnwn_Q#.XRuoJfW_8mh.facebook'>nuclear workers building union power</a>;</li> <li style="font-weight:400;">The need to reindustrialize our nuclear energy sector and restart nuclear processing and recycling; and </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">The future of union led nuclear energy in America.</li> </ul> <p>About The Political Economy Project </p> <p><a href='https://www.empathymedialab.com/politicaleconomy'>The Political Economy Project</a> is creating a blueprint seeking to unify our fellow humans to work together and create a new renaissance and a harmony of