Project Labor Agreement Resource Guide
JMA’s community benefits agreement with New Flyer is mentioned in the Department of Labor’s Project Labor, Community Workforce, and Community Benefits Agreements Resource Guide.
Green jobs must be good jobs. America’s investment in the energy transition should restore the pathway to the middle class
This piece in Fortune from Ford Foundation president Darren Walker mentions JMA’s CBA with New Flyer as an example of a creative solution to ensure that green jobs are good jobs.
New public investments are creating new jobs. Let’s make sure they’re good ones.
In the Public Interest covered the essay JMA Co-Executive Director Madeline Janis co-wrote for the American Prospect about creating “industrial policy for all.”
Primer: Green Industrial Strategy for Just Transitions
The Climate + Community Project’s report mentions JMA’s U.S. Employment Plan as model legislation to leverage government purchasing power to support the development of a high-road electric vehicle manufacturing industry.
Ensuring the Green Jobs are Good Jobs
The issue is that despite this booming industrial development, communities in the South continue to be chronically impoverished. Corporations take advantage of a system that includes some of the lowest wages in the nation, along with a relative lack
Local Opportunities Coalition comment in response to Office of Management and Budget’s Request for Information
The Local Opportunities Coalition and supporting partners wrote a comment in response to the Office of Management and Budget’s Request for Information on how the Uniform Guidance can be updated or revised to give state and local recipients of federal
Union Provides Education and Equality for School Bus Manufacturing Worker
For Tanya Brown, a painter at electric school bus maker Thomas Built Buses in North Carolina, being in a union has helped her finish her degree and is creating equal opportunities for women in the workplace. College business courses are
Reagan-era regulations hold back good jobs policies in states and cities
New America discusses how Uniform Guidance regulations inhibit state and municipal efforts to support job quality and worker power through infrastructure spending, and how a coalition led by JMA is working to change this.
Let’s Honor Rosa Parks by Creating Equity in Transit—For Riders and Workers
This Saturday is Transit Equity Day, which takes place on Rosa Parks’ birthday to honor her historic action to demand equality for public transit riders. Parks’ refusal to move to the back of a Montgomery, AL bus in 1955
A Closer Look at the Critical Minerals and Battery Components White Paper
The Treasury and the IRS released a white paper previewing their tax guidance on the Inflation Reduction Act’s EV tax credits. JMA recommends attaching good jobs standards to the rules.