The BlueGreen Alliance and Apollo Alliance today announced a merger to strengthen and unify the movement to build a clean energy, good jobs economy to fuel U.S. job creation. The newly unified organization will call on Washington to focus anew on creating good jobs, securing America’s energy future and preserving the environment for future generations.

Michael Peck, a board member of the Apollo Alliance, writes that the Wisconsin workers who have been in the streets and the Capitol Rotunda in Madison for more than a week:

are fighting for more than balancing a budget and even more than the right to bargain collectively for our own welfare. Indeed, the stakes are much, much higher and go to the core of who we are as a people and country.

When the Apollo Alliance released its Clean Transportation Manufacturing Action Plan (TMAP) in October (click here for detailed coverage) one of its key job-creating recommendations was ensuring that American manufacturers and U.S. workers supply the rail cars, tracks and other mass transit equipment to modernize the nation’s mass transportation system.