As Lion Electric officially opens its new manufacturing facility in Joliet, Illinois, a growing coalition of community members is calling on the electric vehicle company to negotiate a community benefits agreement (CBA) and commit to creating good jobs and investing in the community.
Join Jobs to Move America from October 8-11th for a transformative trip through Alabama, the center of the civil rights movement and the growing Black-led worker justice movement. This is an opportunity to significantly contribute to the worker organizing and
by Ian Elder, National Research and Policy Manager Electric school buses (ESB) have come a long way since a year ago, when we published our comprehensive report, Driving the Future. In just a year, the technology has taken off:
by Will Tucker, JMA Southern Director Earlier this month, the Jobs to Move America team in Alabama had lunch with nine New Flyer of America workers in Anniston, Ala. The workers were new to their jobs building, painting and testing
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.
JMA’s New York Policy Manager Mo-Yain Tham wrote about how the booming offshore wind industry needs to create good jobs and center communities.
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.
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.”
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.
JMA’s Co-Executive Director Madeline Janis co-wrote this piece about what we haven’t done, and what we should do, to ensure that “new industrial strategy” actually benefits workers.
