Diversity for Hire: Astroturfing, New Flyer, and the Transportation Diversity Council
How New Flyer and the Transportation Diversity Council are “astroturfing” worker and community demands for racial and economic justice.
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.
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.
Fear on the factory floor is bad for business
In the past 20 years, U.S. manufacturing jobs have become more insecure and precarious.
Column: Manufacturers have a recruiting problem. So why aren’t they hiring more women?
Despite the fact that women represent 51.4 percent of adults in the U.S., they hold only seven percent of middle-skilled manufacturing jobs.
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.