The Win for EV Workers in the South You Didn’t Hear About
The rapid road to contract ratification at New Flyer in Anniston, Alabama was made possible by a years-long campaign by CWA and a coalition of community groups including Jobs to Move America
The rapid road to contract ratification at New Flyer in Anniston, Alabama was made possible by a years-long campaign by CWA and a coalition of community groups including Jobs to Move America
Su also thanked “union leaders for showing up here and every single day” and said “Jobs to Move America and Alabama Arise both helped make this trip so rich and meaningful for me.”
New Flyer ultimately reversed course in part because of a series of legal actions brought by a collection of labor groups led by the nonprofit pro-union group Jobs to Move America.
This milestone follows New Flyer’s signing of a community benefits agreement with Jobs to Move America in May 2022, as part of a lawsuit settlement. The agreement mandates the company to enhance Spanish language communications, establish a discrimination complaint system,
The workers’ successful unionization and new contract comes after New Flyer signed a community benefits agreement with Jobs to Move America, a policy center focused on economic justice, as part of a lawsuit settlement in May 2022.
The Anniston factory was New Flyer’s only Deep South facility and therefore its last in the United States to unionize. The campaign took nearly 10 years; the ball got rolling after Jobs to Move America, an alt-labor and civil rights
Jobs to Move America is pioneering an innovative labor strategy that turns public investments in green infrastructure and manufacturing into opportunities for union organizing and better working conditions.
A victory in the Southern state, said one organizer, “would show workers across all different industries that they can stand up together and fight for more.”
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