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May 21, 2019
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A challenge to American business: fight for infrastructure spending, or suffer the consequences.

With a $2 trillion infrastructure package on the line, businesses need to step up and fight for the common good in the form of public infrastructure spending — or suffer the consequences,” writes Madeline Janis, executive director of Jobs to

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Two women’s visions of diversity, equity, and inclusion in infrastructure

Listen to this podcast with two social justice leaders about the struggle for gender justice in the transportation and infrastructure sectors.

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Western States

BYD Apprenticeship Readiness Training

This pre-apprenticeship program will train people with systemic barriers to employment for clean, union jobs in the manufacturing industry.

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Western States

Good Jobs through LA Metro’s purchasing process

In 2018, LA Metro committed to creating tens of thousands of good manufacturing jobs by adopting our good jobs and equity policy.

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JMA provides public comment on draft DOT strategic plan

Jobs to Move America (JMA) respectfully submits the following comments to the US Department of Transportation (DOT) regarding the DOT’s strategic plan for FY 2018-2022 and Request for Public Comment, Docket Number DOT-OST-2009-0092. Jobs to Move America is a non-profit

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National

Moving Forward: Toward Women’s Equity and Inclusion in the Rail and Transit Sector

The resources in this toolkit support the recruitment, training, and retention of women in nontraditional apprenticeship and jobs in the rail and transit sector.

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July 17, 2017
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BYD Motors Signs Community Benefits Agreement with SMART Local 105 and JMA

This agreement is critical to addressing long-standing inequities in the manufacturing industry, given that women and African Americans are underrepresented in the industry, and that returning citizens frequently face harmful stigmas when trying to find employment.

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Midwest

Chicago Good Jobs Pipeline

Our community-labor coalition is developing a jobs pipeline to train Chicagoans facing barriers to employment for jobs at CRRC, a railcar manufacturer in Chicago.

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Western States

Good Jobs through LA DOT’s purchasing process

In 2017, the LA Department of Transportation committed to applying our signature good jobs and equity policy to all future purchases of clean transit equipment.

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November 11, 2016
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LA Metro bus project to lift up disadvantaged workers

In total, the projects could bring an estimated 4,500 jobs to the Los Angeles County area and other yet-to-be-determined cities that local transit jobs coalition Jobs to Move America says will play a vital role in the manufacturing and supply