Clean Energy Jobs Act (CEJA)
This state bill would commit Illinois to 100 percent clean energy. The bill includes our signature good jobs and equity policy.
Alabama coalition and prominent Black union leaders send letters to New Flyer denouncing company’s phony diversity initiative
ANNISTON, ALABAMA—On Tuesday, February 4, 2020, the Alabama Coalition for Community Benefits – a coalition of workers and civil rights, faith, labor, and community groups – sent a letter to bus manufacturer New Flyer Industries denouncing the company’s recent announcement
Good Jobs Policies
We start from one core belief: that public goods should create the most public good. In practice, this means that the billions of public dollars our government spends every year to invest in public goods like transit, infrastructure, education, and
Manufacturing Careers Policy at the MTA
We’re advocating for a good jobs and equity policy at the nation's largest transportation agency: New York's MTA.
Alabama community coalition asks bus manufacturing behemoth to negotiate first nationwide Community Benefits Agreement
New York – Representatives from a coalition of community, labor, civil rights, and environmental groups from Alabama delivered a letter to Chris Stoddart, the President of the bus division of New Flyer Industries this week, urging him to negotiate a
Good Jobs Everywhere: Why Manufacturing Jobs Should Advance Equity and Strengthen Communities
Jobs to Move America released this white paper documenting the results of interviews with New Flyer workers and preliminary findings from an academic study of manufacturing workers across Alabama and Mississippi by Alabama A&M University’s (AAMU).
Column: ‘American Factory’ tells an all too familiar story
Netflix is airing a new documentary, “American Factory,” which tells an important and powerful story. Spoiler alert: the ending is not a triumphant one for the workers. But better endings do, in fact, exist.
Contracting Careers Opportunity Policy Ordinance at CTA
CTA will be the second transit agency nationally and the largest agency to apply our signature good jobs policy, the USEP, to its major procurements.
Column: Let’s electrify public buses without throwing workers under the bus
A large-scale transition to electric buses is a logical way to meet these emissions targets and clean our air. Now it’s time to get serious about making that transition work for everyone.
Congress takes a first step to give second chances, manufacturers should follow
While many consider the First Step Act to be just that -- a first step -- the bill may also contain important lessons for manufacturers looking to solve the sector’s ongoing recruitment crisis.
