Column: A Green New Deal worth taking
The Green New Deal is dominating the headlines, but what does this really mean for workers? A new report offers some important insights.
Celebrating Black leaders in labor and transportation
This Black History Month, we are profiling a group of Black trade unionists, civil rights leaders, workers, and leaders in transportation.
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.
BYD Apprenticeship Readiness Training
This pre-apprenticeship program will train people with systemic barriers to employment for clean, union jobs in the manufacturing industry.
Reagan vs. Cities: The 20th Century Battle Over South African Apartheid and Lessons For The Trump Era
By the 1980s, the apartheid political system in South Africa and its brutal oppression of people of color had become increasingly shocking to the world. Sustained global opposition resulted in the system’s collapse by the beginning of the next decade.
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.
President Obama: The solution to unprecedented inequality is good jobs and opportunities for the disadvantaged
Underinvestment in job creation, training, education and public services like transportation put middle-class success out of reach for many Americans, while at the other end of the spectrum, wealth has been concentrated in very few hands.
Community Benefits Agreements
Community Benefits Agreements (CBAs) are legally enforceable agreements between private companies and coalitions of community and labor groups that are used to secure a wide range of job standards and equity measures.
Chicago Transit Authority tackles racial employment disparity
Much of $2 billion in new transit money will be built by local workers, thanks to a new agreement by a nonprofit and Chicago’s transit authority.
Workforce Equity Programs
Jobs to Move America is working across the country to develop apprenticeship programs and job pipelines that will ensure people who have historically been denied access to manufacturing careers have the necessary skills to obtain good, family-sustaining manufacturing jobs.