How much would it cost to electrify the nation’s school buses?
To electrify half of the nation's 500,000 fossil-fuel-powered school buses, it would cost approximately $30 billion.
Biden’s infrastructure plan endorses PRO Act, labor boosts
President Joe Biden's infrastructure plan unveiled Wednesday calls for boosting workers and organized labor, including by overhauling federal labor law to make it easier for workers to form unions and negotiate the terms of their work.
Jobs to Move America urges White House to repeal local hire ban to maximize benefits of infrastructure investment
As President Biden rolls out his infrastructure plan today, Jobs to Move America Executive Director Madeline Janis issued a statement urging the Biden administration to repeal the ban on local hire.
NYC’s purchase of school buses should supercharge transition to electric fleet: advocates
The city’s purchase of hundreds of yellow buses could jump-start what has been a slow effort to add electric vehicles to the diesel-guzzling school-bus fleet, advocates argue in a new report.
To build a worker-centered economy, pass the PRO Act
The PRO Act would fix these problems in federal labor law by protecting workers’ right to collective action, holding employers accountable for breaking the law, ensuring free and fair union elections, and creating a fair process for a first union contract.
New study paints bleak picture of Alabama’s tradeoff of tax breaks for jobs
Big companies benefit at the expense of their employees and surrounding communities, researchers at Alabama A&M say.
How Biden is trying to help working-class voters in red-state Alabama
The president’s support for the rights of unionizing Amazon workers delighted political organizers in Alabama who are hoping to build long-term Democratic momentum in a reliably red state.
CTA, peer transit agencies urge Biden administration to end local hiring ban
Transit officials, mayors and community activists from Chicago and elsewhere in the country called on the Biden administration to end long-standing federal regulations dictating that any construction project that uses federal funds can’t favor local companies and residents when it comes to issuing bids and hiring.
Walsh and labor advocate push for more local jobs for I-81 project
Syracuse’s Mayor Ben Walsh and a local jobs advocate are lending their voices to a move to allow more local workers to take part in federally funded public works projects. Jobs to Move America is trying to lift a 30-year-old ban on any geographic hiring requirements in road, bridge or other projects that get federal money.
Mayor Walsh to Biden: Overturn ban on hiring local for federal projects
Walsh believes allowing people to work in their own communities would help boost the local economy and increase opportunities for marginalized workers.