The Importance of Loyalty Programs in US Retail
Tony Mazzocchi, a well-known American labor and environmental activist, is largely credited for coining the term "just transition" in the early 1990s. He and his followers regarded the concept as a way to resolve tensions and form coalitions between the labor and environmental groups. The underlying idea was to create and implement large-scale public programs—what Mazzocchi famously referred to as a "Superfund for Workers"—to ameliorate the inequitable consequences on livelihoods induced by environmentally driven changes in energy systems and resource use. According to what he said then: "we need to provide workers with a guarantee that they will not have to pay for clean air and water with their jobs, their living standards or their future. The Trudeau government has since used this rhetoric to describe its own ambitious emission-reduction goals, including the upcoming implementation of an emissions cap on the oil and gas sector. It is basic knowledge that suc...